Pattern Finder · Answer Key

Check the answers together. If an answer is different from yours, talk about how each of you got there. Both ways of thinking are worth hearing.

1. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: solid circle. Rule: The shapes take turns: solid circle, outline square, over and over.
2. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: outline triangle. Rule: A block of three repeats: solid triangle, outline triangle, solid star.
3. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: solid star. Rule: A block of three repeats: two solid stars, then an outline circle.
4. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: solid arrow pointing down. Rule: The arrow turns a quarter turn clockwise each time: up, right, down, left, and then it starts over.
5. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: 5 outline triangles. Rule: The number of triangles goes up by one each step: 1, 2, 3, 4, then 5.
6. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: solid circle. Rule: A block of four repeats: solid square, outline square, solid circle, outline circle.
7. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: outline arrow pointing down. Rule: The arrow turns a quarter turn counter-clockwise each time: up, left, down, right, and then it starts over.
8. What goes in the two empty boxes?
Answer: solid star, then outline diamond. Rule: The shapes take turns: solid star, outline diamond. Two boxes are missing.

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