Understanding Patterns

What is a pattern?

• A collection of unrelated items

• A single object repeated once

• An arrangement of things that repeat logically

• A random arrangement of objects

In an AB pattern, if the sequence is button, peg, button, peg, what comes next?

• Mug

• Fork

• Button

• Peg

What is the core sequence of an ABC pattern?

• ABB

• AAB

• ABC

• ABA

If a pattern goes leaf, leaf, shell, leaf, leaf, shell, what type of pattern is it?

• ABC

• ABA

• AAB

• ABB

In the pattern donut, cupcake, donut, cupcake, what comes next?

• Cupcake

• Donut

• Shell

• Leaf