Patterns No1

This activity worksheet involves patterns of regularly increasing arrangements of dots. Students are required to calculate the number of dots in a given arrangement further along the pattern. They are then asked to generalise to “Pattern n”.
A detailed Teacher’s Guide outlines different ways this resource may be used. Students should be encouraged to be creative and find different calculations methods which will lead to different algebraic forms. This then naturally leads to the algebraic simplification of the resulting expressions.