What patterns do you see?

What do you notice repeats?

What do you predict would be on the left or right of this image? Why?

K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6+

Seeing mathematics in the world

Attending to and using structure

Seeing and creating patterns

Sorting, organizing, and using attributes

Composing and decomposing with shapes

After the class has discussed the questions above, you can extend this activity by posing the following questions:

What tile patterns can you design with repeating shapes? What tools would help you design patterns like this one? What makes designing patterns like this one hard?