Algebra Readiness Made Easy Grade 1

FIND THE PATTERN

• If the pattern continued, how many white cir-

cles would be in picture 5? (1)How many black

circles would there be? (5)

• How many white circles would be in picture 8?

(1)How many black circles would there be? (8)

Work together as a class to answer the questions

in “Solve the Problem: Find the Pattern.”

Math Chat With the Transparency

Display the “Make the Case: Find the Pattern”

transparency on the overhead. Before children

can decide which character is “wearing smarty

pants,” they need to figure out the answer

to the problem. Encourage children to work in

pairs to solve the problem. Then bring the class

together for another whole-class discussion. Ask:

• Who has the right answer? (Shorty Trunks)


• How did you figure it out? (All pictures have 2

white circles. The number of black circles is one less

than the picture number.)

• How do you think Carl Cargo got the answer of

2 white and 6 black circles? (He might have

thought that the number of black circles was the same

as the picture number.)

• How do you think that Levi Sam got the answer

of 2 white and 7 black circles? (To figure out the

number of black circles, he might have given the total

number of circles instead of just the black ones.)

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FIND THE PATTERN

Name _____ Date __

Ima Thinker

If the pattern continues, how many

and will there be in Picture 5?

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I see a pattern.

Picture 1 has 1 and 1.

Picture 2 has 1 and 2.

Picture 3 has 1 and 3.

1 .Draw the circles in Picture 5.

2.Picture 5 will have _____.

Picture 5 will have _____.

3.Picture 6 will have _____.

Picture 6 will have _____.

4.Picture 8 will have _____.

Picture 8 will have _____.

5.Picture 10 will have _____.

Picture 10 will have _____.

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FIND THE PATTERN

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If the pattern continues, how many

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Algebra Readiness Made Easy: Grade 1 © Greenes, Findell & Cavanagh, Scholastic Teaching Resources