Repeating Patterns
What are the next 4 numbers to continue the pattern:
12, 4, 32, 11, 6, 12, 4, 32, 11, 6, 12, 4
32, 11, 6, 12
Find a rule for the pattern and complete it:
5, 7, 9, __, __, 15
skip counting by 2
11, 13
Miss Moran needs to put equal groups of people at tables in the cafeteria. The chart shows the number of tables for different groups of people:
Number of people: 24 36 42 54
Number of tables: 4 6 9
What rule can be used to explain how to find how many people are needed if there are 42 people?
divide by 6
Number of stories: 1 2 3 4 5
Number of blocks: 2 4 6 __ __
Multiply the number of stories by 2
Write the next two parts of the pattern:
pink, pink, blue, tan, pink, pink, blue, ___, ___
tan, pink
What are the next 4 numbers to continue the pattern:
2, 2, 4, 3, 2, 2, 4, 3, 2, 2,
4, 3, 2, 2
Find a rule for the pattern and complete it:
51, 47, 43, 39, __, __, __
35, 31, 27
Hours Worked: 4 8 7 2 6
Amount Earned: $24 $48 __ $12 ___
$42, $36
Number of stories: 1 2 3 4 5 __
Number of blocks: 2 3 4 __ __ 11
number of blocks is one more than number of stories
7, 14, 21, 28, 35
skip counting by 7
What are the next 5 shapes in the pattern?
square, circle, circle, triangle, square, circle, circle, triangle, square,
circle, circle, triangle, square, circle
Rule: add by 13
26, 39, __, __, __, __, __
52, 65, 78, 91, 102
Miss Moran needs to put equal groups of people at tables in the cafeteria. The chart shows the number of tables for different groups of people:
Number of people: 24 36 42 54
Number of tables: 4 6 9
What rule can be used to explain how to find how many people are needed if there are 42 people?
divide by 6
Addy ran twice as many laps around the track in running club as Ellie. Ellie ran 6 laps. How many laps did they run in all?
18
There are 28 cards in a shop. Twenty cards are white and the rest are tan or blue. There are 4 more tan envelopes than blue envelopes. How many are blue?
2
Miss Morrisey put beads on a string to make a bracelet she used a purple bead, two pink beads, a blue bead, a purple, two pink, and so on until she used 24 pink beads. How many beads did she use in all?
48
The mailman delivers mail. He sees that a few mailboxes do not have a number. IF the missing numbers are in a pattern, what is the missing number? What would the 23rd house on the road by?
27, 29, __, 33, __, __, __, 41
31, 35, 37, 39,
skip by 2
73
Number of chairs: 3 2 5 7 __
Number of legs: 12 8 20 __ 36
multiply the number chairs by 4 to get the number of legs
subtract blocks by 3
The lockers are in a pattern shown below:
24, 29, __, 39, 40
What is the missing number in the pattern?
34
Will and Sara played with 63 lego pieces, they organized them into a pattern:
red, red, blue, green, black, tan, blue, red, red, blue, green, black, tan, blue, red, red, and so on
What would the 54th color lego piece be?
black
Miss Morrisey had ordered 24 boxes of crayons with 12 crayons in each of them. She she has counted 10 and found 120 crayons in all, how many will she have if she counts 11, 12, 13, and 14?
132, 144, 156, 168
Earned: $15 $12 $17 $9 $11
Spent: $7 ___ $9 ___ $3
Find a rule
Number of stories: 1 2 3 4 5 __
Number of blocks: 3 6 9 __ __ 30
multiply by 3
Complete the pattern:
123, 112, 101, ___, ___
90, 79