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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