MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGE FOR FILIPINO KIDS TRAINING PROGRAM

YOUNGSTER GROUP SESSION 1

SHAPES AND PATTERN
A. Name of Basic Shapes

Rectangles

Squares
All 4 sides of a square are equal.

Circles

Triangles

B. Find and Use a Pattern

Humans live in a world full of patterns: in art, music, nature design and human behavior. Patterns are
generally defined as repeated sequences of objects, actions, sounds or symbols. Patterns may also include
changes because they are not perfect. Recognizing and using patterns is a critical human thinking ability.
Without the ability to find and use patterns to organize their world, humans would live in a world of chaos.
Young children create patterns based on color with common manipulatives: pattern blocks, color tiles and
links. Commercial or teacher-made templates guide childrens pattern work from simple two-element patterns
to more complex patterns with three or four elements. Students match patterns, read color patterns and extend
patterns:

Red, blue, red, blue, red, blue,

Yellow, green, green, yellow, green, green
Blue, green, yellow, blue, green, red, blue, green, yellow
Other patterns can be found and made using children themselves. They can arrange themselves by type of
shoe, color of eyes, or positions:
Sandals, sneaker, sandal, sneaker,
Brown, blue, green, brown, blue, green,
Sit, stand, sit, stand, sit, stand,
Patterns are a foundation skill for thinking. Even numbers are those numbers that can be broken down into
pairs, giving a numerical sequence of 2, 4, 6, 8, . More complicated patterns can be found in the relationships
between numbers.
Increasing sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 9, 4, 16,
Decreasing sequence: 100, 90, 81, 73, 66, 60,

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,
1, 8, 27, 64,
1, 4, 2, 7, 3, 10, 4,

Brain Exercise
A. Fill in the blanks with the correct name of the shape show.
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B. Draw lines to match items on the left with those on the right.
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Mind Strainers
A. Draw the correct shape in the space provided in each of the following pattern.
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B. Sketch the colour of the next five beads.
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C. Sketch the number with colour of those beads that must be inside the box.
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Brain Provokers
A. What number must be replaced in the question mark for each pattern below.

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B. What number must be replaced in the question mark for each pattern below.
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D. Find the pattern and write out the missing numbers in each problem.
1. 1, 3, 5, 7 (
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2. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, (
), (
3. 30, 25, 20, 15, (
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4. 2, 10, 2, 20, 2, 30, 2, 40, (
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5. 2, 5, 8 (
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6. 1, 6, 7, 12, 13, (
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7. 20, (
), 12, 8, 4
8. 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, (
), 21, 34

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F. Find the next two numbers in each sequence?

1. 2, 6, 10, 14, _______, ________
3. 20, 17, 14, 11, ________, ________
5. 1, 4, 7, 10, ________, _________

) 4. (1, 5), (2, 10), (3, 15), (4, 20), (

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E. Find two numbers that must be fill inside the parentheses in each given pattern.
1. (6, 2), (7, 3), (8, 4), (9, 5), ( , )
2. (1, 10), (2, 11), (3, 12), (4, 13), (
3. (20, 10), (19, 9), (18, 8), (17, 7), (

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2. 0, 3, 6, 9, _______, _________
4. 48, 43, 38, 33, ________, ________
6. 30, 28, 26, 24, _________, _________

E. What number must be removed in each pattern?

1. 3, 6, 9, 12, 14, 18, 21
2. 5, 10, 15, 20, 35, 30

3. 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13

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