Curriculum placement
Grade 3. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Patterns in the operations
Explain patterns in arithmetic tables
Problem types
- Complete a table of pairs from a situation
- Patterns in the multiplication table
- Compare neighboring products
- Complete a repeating pattern
Builds on
- One-digit multiplication facts
- Addition and subtraction facts · Useful idea
Each next multiple in a times table adds the same number, a pattern found with addition facts.
Leads to
- Patterns that follow a rule
- Whole-number powers · Extend the idea
A pattern that doubles each time is repeated multiplication, which a power writes with an exponent.
- Dependent and independent variables · See it applied
A table pairing a situation's two quantities shows how the output depends on the input, which an equation then writes down.
- Rules for an arithmetic sequence · Extend the idea
A pattern that adds the same number each time is an arithmetic sequence, written with a first term and a common difference.
Related skills
- Rules for a geometric sequence · Related idea
A multiplication table pattern adds the same amount each step; a pattern that multiplies by the same amount each step is a geometric sequence.
- Quotients from related facts · Shared foundations
- Generating equivalent fractions · Shared foundations
- Equal multiplication and division equations · Shared foundations
- Multiplying by a multiple of 10 · Shared foundations
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