Within the realm of children’s education there is so much of a focus on the core curriculum of math, reading and spelling that we sometimes overlook the skills necessary to actually develop that core. Practice with finding existing patterns at an early age can help a child to develop their own processes for analyzing problems or even develop improved systems based on the discovery of a new pattern. Just a little early focus on patterns can help to forge an athlete that writes better football plays, a musician that writes better music, or a business owner that makes better use of their own sales data.
This worksheet above is one of the free sample selections from our children’s educational book “The Forgotten Milestone“. Children Ages 4-10.
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Spy Decoder Wheel – Random Alphabet Version
How the Decoder Works Once you’ve used the instructions on the PDF Download to assemble your decoder you can either share that decoder with a friend or have them make an identical one. To use it, simply line up a
Word Search: (Science) Nature
Word search puzzle on the topic of nature – recommended for first grade. Download our printable pdf.
Make Your Own Sequences Activity – Smilie Face Pattern
Completing Sequences is a great way to develop pattern recognition skills in a child, but this activity adds another layer of interactivity for the student. Follow the directions on the page to have the child cut out all of the
Crossword Puzzle Research Project – Animal Classifications
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Pattern Recognition Matching
Whether our children are facing a career in accounting, medicine, science or art, they will be faced with a tremendous amount of data – an amount of data that could never have been predicted when our educational curriculum were developed
Pattern Recognition Coloring
Working with patterns not only improves a child’s foundation for problem solving in all core learning activities, but expands the tool-set they have available when confronted with a new challenge. Just as an adult might have devised day-to-day strategies for