Patterns and rules are related.
Students should explore patterns by creating a table or trying guess and check strategies. The rule in the first pattern is to keep adding one more than before.
The rule in the second pattern is to keep subtracting 10. Growing Pattern:
Repeating Patterns:
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4.OA.5 Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself. For example, given the rule “Add 3” and the starting number 1, generate terms in the resulting sequence and observe that the terms appear to alternate between odd and even numbers. Explain informally why the numbers will continue to alternate in this way.