Finding Numerical Pattern Rules
Grade 4•45 minutes•5.PFA.1 The student will identify, describe, extend, and create increasing and decreasing patterns with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals, including those in context, using various representations.
Learning Objective
I can figure out the pattern in a list of numbers or a function machine and use the rule to continue the pattern.
Practice Questions
This lesson includes 7 practice questions to reinforce learning.
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1. Describe in your own words what a "rule" is in an input/output table.
2. In an input/output table, the inputs are 2, 4, 6, and the outputs are 5, 7, 9. What is the rule?
3. The rule for an input/output table is "input × 5 = output". If the input is 7, what is the output?
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