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About this game
Complete a pattern: a free Kindergarten math game for ages 5-6. Each round draws 5 questions; instructions are read aloud and every answer is checked and explained.
A bead necklace with one bead missing is easy to fix if you know the pattern. Complete a pattern is a Kindergarten game with that kind of gap. A row repeats three shapes, a pink heart, an orange diamond and a red circle, for instance, and one box in the middle is empty. Your child taps the missing shape, from four. The instruction is read aloud, a round has five rows, and each answer is checked and explained by naming the three shapes that repeat.
A gap in the middle is harder than a gap at the end. Your child has to find the unit of three, then say it through the empty box, as the hint suggests. Three shapes ask for more memory than two. Saying them aloud helps.
The neighbors of the gap are offered as answers, the shape just before it and the shape just after. Copying a neighbor is the common shortcut. Start from the first shape together and ask, "Heart, diamond, and then?" Praise the work: "You said the pattern right through the gap."