Delta-K,  Feature Articles,  Volume 38, Issue 2

Patterns and Patterning: Myths and Not Myths

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 38 Issue 2, May 2001

44 – 46

Patterns and Patterning: Myths and Not Myths

Jerry Ameis

You may be having a few troublesome thoughts about the patterns and relations strand in the early and middle years curriculum documents. Because it is a new strand, there are likely to be good reasons for those thoughts. The strand covers two related processes: sorting and patterning. This article discusses both, with the focus on patterning.