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About this game
What repeats: 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.
Every pattern has a small piece that keeps coming back, the way wallpaper repeats one drawing. What repeats asks a Pre-K child to find that piece. A row of shapes is shown, such as heart, diamond, heart, diamond, heart. Below are four short pairs of shapes, and your child taps the pair the row is built from. The instruction is read aloud, a round has five rows, and each answer is checked.
Naming the part that repeats goes beyond continuing a row. It asks for the rule itself, called the unit, or core, of the pattern. A child who sees the unit can build the row, extend it or spot a mistake in it. The hint helps: put a finger on the first shape and wait for it to come back.
On every card, one pair is the first shape twice, heart, heart. It fools a quick eye. Slide a finger along and ask, "When does the heart come back?" Then name the find: "You found where it starts over."