Continuing Visual Dot Patterns Worksheet Download
This worksheet draws the first three steps of a dot pattern and asks how many dots the fourth step would need. No numbers are given anywhere, so the rule has to be read off the pictures themselves. The shapes vary between single rows, blocks of rows, squares, staircases and pyramids, and some patterns shrink instead of growing, so students cannot rely on one rule fitting every question.
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Continuing Visual Dot Patterns
Students look at the first three steps of a dot pattern, work out how it grows or shrinks, and write how many dots the next step would have.
