Repeating and growing patterns: Foundation – planning tool
This planning resource for Foundation is for the topic of Repeating and growing patterns. Students begin to appreciate patterns that occur around them. They learn to recognise, copy and continue different repeating patterns and observe natural patterns in the world around them.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Algebra
- Topic
- Patterns and algebra
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9MFA01
- Numeracy progression
- Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P1, P2)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
- lesson plans assessment task teaching strategies pedagogies Australian Curriculum learning from home misconceptions
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