Share your tips how to teach PATTERNS to a toddler

[Korrale4kq]

My son (25 months) does patterns in a way I would not have thought. He actually looks for what is missing. I will give an example.

Pattern:

1 2 1 2 1 _

What he does is touch all the 1s. Like he is touching and matching the 1s or possibly counting them in his head. Then he does the same thing with the 2s then he sees that a 2 is missing. And he uses that next in the pattern.

It is easier for him to do when there are more things in the pattern or there is something missing in the middle of a pattern. More like this.

1 2 3 1 _ 3.

So he touches 1 and 1. Then 2 and _ And then 3 and 3. Then he figures out that it should be 2 and 2.

Not sure that makes sense. It is not how I would have thought to teach patterning but it is how my son figured it out.

[Kerileanne99]

Seastar-
I know you are interested in teaching your child to play with Tangrams and I thought you might enjoy this wooden MelissaandDoug 'Pattern Block' set we have...It comes with multiple wooden two-sided boards to copy, and I am including the site that I found where you can download additional pattern blocks for free...

http://prekinders.com/pattern-blocks/

We also use the shapes that are included...hexagon, rhombus, triangle, square, rectangle sort of thing for patterns and sorting activities...

One thing, the pieces are smaller than I expected so this is one of those activities that are kept up high and brought out with Mommy...which I have found only adds to the Allure

[serj2012]

here are some great educational games http://www.addictedtoplay.com/online-games/Educational-Games.html

[krisdr]

I have just received Numicon at home kit and there are many games explained on ho to teach pattern. I am really looking forward to play it with my dd. I am very pleased with the product.

Please update how you like the numicon. I am thinking about getting it.

[lelask]

Sorry for late reply .
We like our Numicon, we don't do any serious math just yet, but we play with it - getting to know it. We do 3 game which are in they curriculum - matching games mainly for now.  My dd isn't very interested in math yet so we have slow approach 
But I like it, I am going to make some flashcards of the numicon shapes for her as I kind of feel she needs it.
Let me know what did you do?



I have found this website with some pattern toys

http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/seo/ca|searchResults~~p|JJ568~~.jsp

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