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Patterns Journey: Notice, Copy and Continue

Early Level

Look, notice, copy, continue and make patterns. Find the part that repeats.

For the teacher or grown-up

A teacher or grown-up can help learners notice what repeats, copy and continue simple patterns, find missing parts and make their own repeating patterns before practice.

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Step 1 of 8

Notice a Pattern

Notice a circle and square repeating in the same order.

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Notice a Pattern

Look carefully at the part that comes back.

What do you notice?

Choose a piece and look along the whole pattern.

Circle, square is the part that keeps coming back.

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Teacher and parent: why this journey matters

This journey moves from explore, notice and talk into building, representing, reasoning and checking. It supports CfE learning now while preparing for the refreshed curriculum direction.

  • Counting and skip counting
  • Shape and position
  • Comparing same and different
  • Repeating size patterns
  • Later number and algebra
Teacher notes and planning metadata

Big Idea

Spot what repeats, copy patterns, continue them and find what comes next.

Know

  • a pattern has a part that repeats
  • the repeat helps us know what comes next
  • patterns can use shapes, colours, sizes, sounds or movements

Understand

  • we can copy a repeating pattern
  • we can continue and repair a pattern by looking at the repeat
  • patterns help us predict

Do

  • spot and describe what repeats
  • copy and continue simple patterns
  • find missing parts and make a repeating pattern

Representations

real objects, shape model, number words

Misconceptions

  • A row is not a repeating pattern unless a part comes again.
  • Colour is one clue, but shape, size, sound and movement can repeat too.
  • A missing part must fit what comes before and after.

Progression

Noticing same and different objects, colours, shapes, sounds and movements.

Counting patterns, odd and even numbers, skip counting, times tables, sequences and algebraic rules.

Curriculum links

  • Builds early pattern reasoning through noticing, copying, continuing, repairing and creating repeats.
  • Use real beads, blocks, sounds and movements alongside the journey.
  • Ask pupils to say the repeating part aloud.
  • Evidence of understanding: pupils can continue a pattern and explain what repeats.