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About this game
What Comes Next: a free Pre-K math game for ages 4-5. Kids look at a row of colored shapes and pick the shape that comes next in the pattern. Each round draws 5 questions; instructions are read aloud and every answer is checked.
Clap, stomp, clap, stomp: children feel a pattern in their body before they can name one. What Comes Next brings that beat to a row of colored shapes for Pre-K. Each row repeats two shapes, a pink heart and an orange diamond for example, and stops at an empty box. Your child taps the shape that belongs there, from four. The instruction is read aloud, five rows make a round, and each answer is checked and explained by naming the repeating pair.
An AB pattern is the simplest rule there is. Two things take turns. Seeing the turn-taking lets a child predict instead of guess, which is early algebra. The hint asks your child to say the shapes from the start and keep going.
A frequent tap lands on the shape that just ended the row, as if it could come twice. Every card offers it. Clap once for each shape while your child names it, then ask, "Whose turn is it now?" Praise the rhythm: "You kept the beat to the empty box."