Our Primary 2 children have been learning to recognise and create repeating patterns.
Pattern is fundamental to mathematics.
Exploring pattern develops a sense of regularity and order, which children need to understand and recognise mathematical rules, solve mathematical problems and make generalisations.
When they make patterns, children are learning to apply rules. To be able to repeat a sequence pattern of blocks of colour, or of shapes, children must identify the implicit rule in the sequence. For example, a bead necklace has the unit: red, blue, red, blue and the rule 'repeat sequentially'.
