Repeating and growing patterns: Year 1 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 1 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.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 1
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Web page
Keywords	lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Algebra
Topics	Patterns and algebra
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M1A01 Recognise, continue and create pattern sequences, with numbers, symbols, shapes and objects, formed by skip counting, initially by twos, fives and tens AC9M1A02 Recognise, continue and create repeating patterns with numbers, symbols, shapes and objects, identifying the repeating unit
Numeracy progression	Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P2, P3) Counting processes (P6)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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