Shape Patterns · 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 square. Rule: Circle, square, circle, square. It repeats.
2. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: solid star. Rule: Triangle, star, triangle, star. It repeats.
3. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: solid circle. Rule: Circle, circle, square. Then it starts again.
4. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: 4 solid stars. Rule: 1 star, then 2 stars, then 3 stars. One more each time, so 4 stars next.
5. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: outline circle. Rule: A full circle, then an empty circle, over and over.
6. What goes in the empty box?
Answer: solid triangle. Rule: Triangle, square, circle. Then it starts again.

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