What’s on the Making Patterns poster
A 5-row table: Name · Pattern · Say it.
A pattern is a rule that repeats. Say it out loud and the rule appears.
- AB — red blue red blue — red-blue, red-blue
- AAB — red red blue red red blue — red-red-blue
- ABB — red blue blue red blue blue — red-blue-blue
- ABC — red blue green red blue green — red-blue-green
- Growing — 1, then 2, then 3, then 4 — one more each time
Ask "what comes next?" — then ask "how do you know?" The second question is the maths.
Questions about the Making Patterns poster
- What’s on the Making Patterns poster?
- A 5-row table: Name · Pattern · Say it. A pattern is a rule that repeats. Say it out loud and the rule appears. AB — red blue red blue — red-blue, red-blue; AAB — red red blue red red blue — red-red-blue; ABB — red blue blue red blue blue — red-blue-blue; ABC — red blue green red blue green — red-blue-green; Growing — 1, then 2, then 3, then 4 — one more each time. Ask "what comes next?" — then ask "how do you know?" The second question is the maths.
- Who is the Making Patterns poster for?
- Making Patterns is filed under Kindergarten (ages 5–6), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting math, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Making Patterns poster?
- Start a pattern with blocks and stop halfway. Let them finish it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Making Patterns belongs on the wall where that math work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Making Patterns?
- 2D Shapes, Counting by Tens and Counting to 100 sit alongside Making Patterns in the Kindergarten set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.2D ShapesCounting by TensCounting to 100
- Is the Making Patterns poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Making Patterns downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kindergarten set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Making Patterns poster print at?
- Making Patterns is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Making Patterns loses nothing.Printing guide
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