What is a Pattern?

A pattern is something that repeats in the same way

A pattern repeats! Once you spot the rule, you can guess what comes next. Let’s look!

A colour pattern

🔴 🔵 🔴 🔵 🔴 ?
This pattern goes red, blue, red, blue… The rule repeats! So the next one must be red 🔴. Patterns can be made of colours, shapes, sizes or numbers.