How it works
Find the part that goes again and again.
A pattern repeats: flower, apple, flower, apple.
Say the pattern out loud to find what comes next.
Worked examples
Find what's missing
- Flower, apple, flower, apple, ?, apple.
- The pattern goes flower then apple.
- The missing one is a flower.
A bigger pattern
- Square, square, triangle, square, square, triangle.
- The part that repeats is square, square, triangle.
- Next comes a square.
Make one
- Make a pattern with two colours of blocks.
- Red, blue, red, blue.
- Then say what comes next.
A taste of the worksheet
These are the first problems of set A. The printable sheet has many more, with an answer key.
- What comes next?
- What comes next in the row?
- What is missing?
- What goes next in this pattern?
- Is the next one an apple?
Words to know
- pattern
- Something that goes again and again.
- next
- The one that comes after.