Recognizing patterns is essential to critical thinking and prediction. If the brain finds a pattern, prediction is possible. Without patterns,m solutions are merely guesses or retrievals from memory. Once young children discover, understand, and can predict patterns, they can figure out what comes next. As I watched Isaiah creating patterns on the geoboard with colorful rubber bands, I could almost see the wheels turning inside his head. He added a spoke to his star pattern, pulled his head back a bit to assess the design, then added another rubber band, explaining that it needed one here or there for balance. Isaiah had clearly found a pattern in his design and was determined to continue it.
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