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7.05 Find the rule

Lesson

Are you ready?

Can you continue this pattern?

Complete the pattern:

  1. $6$6, $8$8, $10$10, $\editable{}$, $\editable{}$, $\editable{}$

 

Learn

You may not have realized but patterns have a rule that you follow to work out the next number, Let's look at how to write rules to describe patterns.

Apply

Complete the pattern:

  1. $6$6, $8$8, $10$10, $\editable{}$, $\editable{}$, $\editable{}$

  2. What is the rule for filling in the pattern?

    Add $2$2.

    A

    Add $3$3.

    B

 

Remember!

Think about how the numbers are changing to work out the rule. Are the numbers getting bigger or smaller, and by how many?

Outcomes

3.OA.D.9

Identify patterns in the addition table and the multiplication table and explain them using properties of operations (e.G. Observe that 4 times a number is always even, and explain why 4 times a number can be decomposed into two equal addends).

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