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 selecting alternate routes based on traffic or the time of day, a child can use the experiences they have had with pattern recognition to learn to approach a problem from different angles when a solution doesn’t immediately present itself. This adaptive type of problem solving is critical to early learning.
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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Count All of the Triangles Puzzle
Find and count all of the hidden triangles in this puzzle. Free to download and print.
Continents & Oceans Crossword Puzzle (Grades 4–6)
Learning world geography doesn’t have to feel like memorization. This free continents and oceans crossword puzzle gives students in Grades 4–6 an engaging way to review key geography vocabulary while practicing spelling, reading clues, and making connections. This printable crossword
Tree Maze Worksheet
While the majority of the lessons we will be covering here are pencil (or crayon) and paper drawings or sequences, it is a really good idea to try to replicate the lessons using real-world items or other household or environmental
Printable Reusable Tangram Puzzle
The worksheet below is one of the sample selections from our children’s educational book “The Forgotten Milestone“. Children Ages 4-10. Assembling patterns, animal and human forms from Tangrams is a great way to exercise your pattern recognition skill. There is
Word Search: (Science) Nature
Word search puzzle on the topic of nature – recommended for first grade. Download our printable pdf.
Find the Hidden Letters
Just the understanding that problems can be solved by looking for patterns can help children out dramatically. Understanding that counting by 2’s or 10’s can help them arrive at a solution faster than counting things one at a time can