Pattern Play · 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 star. Rule: Two solid stars, then an outline circle, over and over.
2. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: solid triangle. Rule: Triangle, circle, square. Then it starts again.
3. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: 5 outline triangles. Rule: 1, 2, 3, 4 triangles. One more each time, so 5 next.
4. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: outline square. Rule: Solid square, outline square, solid circle. Then it starts again.
5. 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.
6. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: solid star. Rule: A solid star, then an outline diamond, over and over.
7. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: 5 solid circles. Rule: 1, 2, 3, 4 circles. One more each time, so 5 next.
8. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: solid circle. Rule: Two solid circles, then two outline squares, over and over.

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