Games Games Are Fun
Games Are Fun
Are Fun Patterns
Patterns
Did you know that you can
look for patterns while you
play games? Some games
have patterns that are easy
to see. A checkerboard
has a color pattern—
red, black, red, black.
Patterns are fun!
Greathouse
Algebraic
Lisa Greathouse
Thinking TCM14437 ●
Games
Are Fun
Patterns
Lisa Greathouse
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Table of Contents
Games Are Fun................. 4
You Try It!...................... 24
Solve the Problem.......... 28
Glossary.........................30
Answer Key.................... 32
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Games are fun!
4
Look for patterns.
5
Do you play checkers?
6
See the AB pattern.
A B A B
7
Do you play cards?
8
See the AAB pattern.
A A B
A A B
9
Do you play
with blocks?
10
See the AAB pattern.
A A B
A A B
11
Do you play
with puzzles?
12
See the AB pattern.
A B A B
13
Do you play
board games?
14
See the ABB pattern.
A B B
A B B
15
Do you play
table tennis?
16
See the AAB pattern.
A A B
A A B
17
Do you play marbles?
18
See the AB pattern.
A B A B
19
Do you play
pick-up sticks?
20
See the ABC pattern.
A B C
A B C
21
Do you play jacks?
22
See the ABB pattern.
A B B
A B B
23
Look at the pattern.
24
1. What comes next?
2. W
hat kind of
pattern is it?
25
Look at the pattern.
26
1. What comes next?
?
2. W
hat kind of
pattern is it?
27
lve the
So Problem
What patterns can
you make with
blocks?
Materials
pattern
blocks
28
1 Make a shape
pattern with the
blocks.
2 Name your pattern
with letters.
3 Try to make a color
pattern.
4 Can you make
another pattern?
29
Glossary
patterns—designs that
repeat
30
Patterns
AB
AAB
ABB
ABC
31
You Try It!
Pages 24–25:
1.
2. AB
Pages 26–27:
1.
2. AAB
Solve the Problem
Answers will vary.
32
