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About this game
Spot a pattern: a free Pre-K math game for ages 4-5. Each round draws 5 questions; instructions are read aloud and every answer is checked and explained.
On most cards in this game, several rows begin with the very same shapes. Spot a pattern asks a Pre-K child to look past the start. Four rows of shapes appear, and the instruction, read aloud, asks for the row that repeats a pattern. Only one does, all the way: green star, pink heart, green star, pink heart, green star, pink heart. Your child taps it. Five cards make a round, and every answer is checked and explained.
A pattern is a unit that comes back the same way, every time, to the end of the row. Checking that, piece by piece, is what lets a child predict the next shape later on. The hint is to read each row out loud; in only one do the shapes always come back the same way.
The hardest wrong row starts perfectly and breaks near the end: star, heart, star, heart, diamond, heart. Read it slowly together and ask, "Did anything sound different?" Then praise the full check: "You read the row to the very end."