Patterns can be notoriously difficult to define. This handout provides illustrations of teacher-child interactions that help take apart (and put back together!) patterns to support our understanding of pattern
The environment constantly exposes young children to regularities of various types: in music, shirts, dance, shape, and spatial relations. Given these experiences, children ages three through six years old develop
A brief overview of the development of patterns and algebraic thinking in young children. Children are born with the ability to detect patterns and our support in the classroom builds
