Aligned Standard

M.EE.3.OA.9: Identify arithmetic patterns.

Grade Level Standard

This is aligned with the following California State Standards:

  • 3.OA.9 - Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table), and explain them using properties of operations. For example, observe that 4 times a number is always even, and explain why 4 times a number can be decomposed into two equal addends.

Linkage Level Descriptions

Initial Precursor

Recognize same as the object that shares all of the same attributes as other objects in a group. Recognize different as the object that shares some or none of the attributes as other objects in a group.

Distal Precursor

Arrange objects in a specific order by following a specific rule (e.g., arrange objects from the largest to the smallest size). Group like items by attributes such as size, shape, and color. Contrast or distinguish objects based on attributes such as shape, size, texture, and numerical pattern.

Proximal Precursor

Recognize that patterns (or cycles) exist in nature or in everyday life.

Target

Recognize the pattern that either repeats or grows when shown different patterns involving numbers, letters, symbols, or shapes (e.g., 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, or 2, 4, 6, 8...).

Successor

Determine the pattern rule in a repeating, growing, or shrinking pattern by finding how a term in the pattern is obtained from a previous term (e.g., in the pattern 1, 3, 5, 7..., each term is obtained from the previous term by adding 2, which implies that the pattern rule is add 2). Apply a given pattern rule to find the next term in a pattern.