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Category : 4th Class
Patterns
OBJECTIVES
· Students will learn to develop and extend patterns
· Students will learn to discover how patterns arise in a variety of mathematical and everyday contexts, and to establish the rules which govern them.
Introduction
Patterns are
· repeated designs or recurring sequences.
· an ordered set of letters, words, numbers, shapes or other mathematical objects, arranged according to a particular rule.
Type I: To find the missing term or next term (number or letter)
· To find the missing term in the given pattern, identify the rule followed in rest of the given terms in pattern using mathematical operation: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, skip counting and reverse counting.
· Identify the order of alphabetical series either from A to Z or Z to A.
· Skipping letters.
Type II: To find the missing part in the figure pattern.
· Complete the figure pattern by drawing its incomplete part in the pattern.
Examples - 1
In the number pattern below, what are the values of A and B respectively?
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4 |
A |
16 |
25 |
36 |
B |
(a) 9, 49 (b) 49, 9
(c) 9, 64 (d) 81, 49
Ans. (a)
Explanation: Pattern followed in above series is
\[2\times 2=4,,4\times 4=16,\text{ }5\times 5=25,\]
\[6\times 6=36,\,\,\]
Examples - 2
Which is the missing square?

(a)
(b) 
(c)
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Ans. (b)
Explanation: Sum of circles in each row or column is 10.
Examples - 3
How many circles will be in pattern 7?

(a) 11 (b) 13
(c) 14 (d) 19
Ans. (b)
Pattern followed is
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So, there will be 13 circles in Pattern 7.
Examples - 4
Find the next letter m the pattern.
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(a) K (b) J
(c) H (d) F
Ans. (a)
Explanation: The pattern is as follows.
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Examples - 5
Look at the pattern.
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Which set of letters best represents the pattern/
(a) ABC (b) ABCC
(c) ABBC (d) ABCD
Ans. (d)
Explanation:
The pattern is as follows:

Examples - 6
Which one of the following figures will continue the pattern?

(a)
(b) ![]()
(c)
(d) ![]()
Ans. (c)
Explanation: Figure is increased by one
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