Chapter 2-Patterns

Repeating Patterns

100

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

200

What are the next 4 numbers to continue the pattern:

2, 2, 4, 3, 2, 2, 4, 3, 2, 2, 

4, 3, 2, 2

300

What are the next 5 shapes in the pattern?

square, circle, circle, triangle, square, circle, circle, triangle, square, 

circle, circle, triangle, square, circle

400

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

500

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

Number Sequences

100

Find a rule for the pattern and complete it:

5, 7, 9, __, __, 15

skip counting by 2

11, 13

200

Find a rule for the pattern and complete it:

51, 47, 43, 39, __, __, __

subtract by 4

35, 31, 27

300

Rule: add by 13

26, 39, __, __, __, __, __

52, 65, 78, 91, 102

400

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

500

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

Writing Rules for Situations

100

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

200

Hours Worked:    4     8     7     2     6

Amount Earned: $24 $48 __   $12  ___  

$42, $36

300

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

400

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 

500

Earned: $15   $12   $17   $9   $11

Spent:   $7     ___   $9   ___    $3

Find a rule

subtract 8 from the amount earned to get the amount spent

Geometric Patterns

100

Number of stories:  1    2    3    4    5

Number of blocks:   2    4    6    __  __

Multiply the number of stories by 2

200

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

300

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

400

Will used 15 blocks to make a tower. Next he used 12 blocks to make a tower, then he used 9 blocks to make a tower. If he continued the pattern, what rule could he use for this table?

subtract blocks by 3 

500

Number of stories: 1    2    3    4    5   __

Number of blocks:  3    6    9  __  __   30

multiply by 3

Random

100

Write the next two parts of the pattern:

pink, pink, blue, tan, pink, pink, blue, ___, ___

tan, pink

200

What is the pattern:

7, 14, 21, 28, 35

skip counting by 7

300

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

400

The lockers are in a pattern shown below:

24, 29, __, 39, 40

What is the missing number in the pattern?

34

500

Complete the pattern:

123, 112, 101, ___, ___

90, 79