Spotting Patterns
Spot patterns and recurring structures — in numbers, words, nature, sounds, or events — and use them to make sense of new information
Typical age: 7–8 years
“When your child notices a pattern — like a number pattern, a word ending, or something that keeps recurring — do they use it to figure out what comes next or predict something new?”
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- Different Accounts of the Same Event
Recognising that accounts diverge in systematic ways — based on who is telling the story — is an application of the universal pattern-recognition habit
- Transferring Skills
Transfer often follows recognising a structural pattern that recurs in a new context
- Using evidence to answer questions
Identifying similarities, differences, and changes in scientific data is the science form of the universal pattern-and-structure recognition habit
- Shape patterns (age 7+)
Noticing place-value and operational structures in maths is the domain-specific application of the universal pattern-recognition habit
- Comparing Characters Across Stories
Identifying patterns and similarities across texts is the reading form of the universal pattern-recognition habit
- Patterns in Your Own Reactions
Noticing recurring patterns in your own reactions is the PSD form of the universal pattern-recognition habit
- Describing Rules & PatternsREQUIRED
Generalising a rule requires first being able to spot the recurring pattern that the rule captures
- Order of operations (age 10+)
Using algebraic and shape structure to solve problems is the advanced maths form of the universal pattern-recognition habit
- Fractions, Decimals & Percentages
Exploiting relationships between fractions, decimals and percentages requires pattern recognition across representations
- Using Mathematical Structure
Using mathematical structure (distributive property, fraction equivalence) draws on the universal pattern-and-structure habit