Delta-K,  Teaching Ideas,  Volume 51, Issue 1

The Exploration of Patterns

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 51 Issue 1, December 2013

21 – 24

The Exploration of Patterns

Chelsey Bonnett

During my studies to become a teacher, I became interested in how children think about patterns. I designed a series of tasks that would help early learning students demonstrate the following outcomes from Alberta’s K-9 mathematics program of studies (Alberta Education 2007, 53):