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The bead pattern is red, blue, red, blue.
What does Pattern mean?
A pattern is a design, sequence, or way that follows a rule or repeats.
Dictionary definition
A repeated or regular arrangement, design, or sequence; a model or usual way something happens. As a verb, pattern means to design or model something after another thing.
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Pattern in a sentence
medium
The number pattern 3, 6, 9, 12 grows by three each time.
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Scientists look for patterns in data before proposing an explanation.
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What makes a sequence a mathematical pattern?
A mathematical pattern has a rule that explains how its terms are arranged or change.
Practice 2
What comes next in 4, 7, 10, 13, ...?
The rule is add 3 each time, so 13 + 3 = 16.
Practice 3
What kind of pattern appears on a striped shirt?
Pattern can describe a repeated visual arrangement as well as a mathematical rule.
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WordPattern.
Partnoun, verb.
MeaningPattern means A pattern is a design, sequence, or way that follows a rule or repeats.
ExampleExample: The bead pattern is red, blue, red, blue.
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- ern
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Does Pattern have an opposite?
Pattern has design, sequence, model, tendency, and verb senses but no direct antonym. Randomness and disorder can contrast with regularity, yet they are not opposites of every kind of pattern.
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Word family
Pattern word family
Base word
pattern
noun
patterns
More than one repeated arrangement or regular tendency.
adjective
patterned
Decorated or arranged with a pattern.
noun
patterning
The arrangement or process of making patterns.
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A pattern does not have to repeat exactly. A growing number pattern can change by a consistent rule, such as adding 3 each time.
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Create one repeating color pattern and one growing number pattern. Trade with a partner, identify each rule, and extend both patterns by three steps.
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Show 2, 5, 8, 11 and ask students to state the rule, predict the next term, and justify why their answer follows the pattern.
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