• Big ideas
  • Patterns are everywhere
    • Tartans and nursery rhymes
  • Mathematical patterns are regular
    • Find the regularity
  • Repeating patterns
    • One-dimensional repeating patterns
    • Two-dimensional repeating patterns
    • Repeating patterns and multiplication
  • Growing patterns
    • Making a staircase
  • Patterns in shapes
    • The language of shapes
• Misunderstandings
  • Identical units of repeat
    • It's harder than you think
    • How do you teach the unit of repeat?
    • Making border patterns
  • Rectangular grids
    • Structure of rectangular grids
    • Drawing rectangular grids
    • Rectangular arrays
  • Number lines
    • Drawing and reading number lines
    • Number lines and repeating patterns
    • Drawing an analogue clock face
  • Number sequences
    • Introducing number sequences
    • Let's have a party!
    • Find a rule
  • Tessellations
    • Triangles tessellate
    • Making tessellations
    • Growing patterns can tessellate
• Good teaching
  • Familiar situations
    • A pattern hunt
  • Patterns in school activities
    • Repeating patterns in school activities
  • Concrete to abstract
    • Making number sequences real
  • Abstraction and generalisation
    • Abstraction of repeating patterns
    • Generalisation in growing patterns
  • Using technology
    • Examples of ICT resources
• Assessment
  • Approaches to assessment
    • Observation
    • Analysis of student work
    • Individual interviews
    • Group assessment
• Activities
  • A hundred square
  • Bee-Bots
  • Drawing an analogue clock face
  • Folding patterns
  • Growing fractions
  • Growing patterns can tessellate
  • Growing polygons
  • Let's have a party!
  • Making an AAB pattern
  • Making border patterns
  • Monster choir patterns
  • Odds and evens
  • Picture books
  • Rectangular arrays
  • Repeating patterns in the environment
  • Sports day
  • Symmetrical patterns in the environment
  • When are two patterns the same?
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• Acknowledgements