Identifying Repeating Patterns
Learn to spot and describe repeating patterns all around you, using shapes, sounds, colours, and numbers.
About This Topic
Learn to spot and describe repeating patterns all around you, using shapes, sounds, colours, and numbers.
Key Questions
- Explain how you know this is a repeating pattern.
- Compare a pattern of shapes to a pattern of sounds.
- Identify the core part of a given pattern.
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