Number patterns: printable worksheets
Continue, describe and explain number patterns, in/out tables and patterns in the multiplication table.
Sample worksheet
The first 4 problems of a real worksheet, made the way the builder makes it. Open it in the builder to change the number of problems, the difficulty and the layout, then print.
1.
Find the missing numbers.
| 3 | 12 | 21 | 30 |
2.
What is the rule?
| 42 | 47 | 52 | 57 | 62 | 67 |
Rule:
3.
Find the rule. Complete the table.
| In | Out |
|---|---|
| 39 | 47 |
| 61 | 69 |
| 70 | |
| 86 | |
| 88 |
Rule:
4.
Find the missing numbers.
| 128 | 122 | 116 | 110 |
Show answers
1.
| 3 | 12 | 21 | 30 | 39 | 48 |
2.Add 5.
3.
| In | Out |
|---|---|
| 39 | 47 |
| 61 | 69 |
| 70 | 78 |
| 86 | 94 |
| 88 | 96 |
Rule: Add 8.
4.
| 128 | 122 | 116 | 110 | 104 | 98 |
What students practise
I can find and explain the rule of a number pattern.
Students continue a number pattern, find the rule from its numbers or an in and out table, make a pattern from a rule, and explain features of the pattern that the rule does not state.
Key words
- pattern
- numbers that follow a rule
- rule
- what you do to get from one number to the next
- term
- one number in a pattern
- input
- the number that goes into a rule
- output
- the number that comes out of a rule
Common mistakes
- Finds the change between the first two numbers only.
- Treats a multiply pattern as adding the same amount.
Standards
Common Core State Standards this worksheet practises.
- 3.OA.D.9: Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table), and explain them using properties of operations. (unverified)
Related topics
- Before this: Skip counting, even and odd, arrays (Grade 2)
- Next: Number patterns and rules (Grade 4)