By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
- Recognise a pattern in a set of numbers, shapes, or events, and explain why it is a pattern rather than a coincidence.
- Describe, extend, and create number patterns such as triangular numbers, square numbers, cube numbers, the doubling pattern, and the Virahanka (Fibonacci-style) numbers.
- Discover hidden connections between different number patterns, including their appearance inside Pascal's Triangle and their link to the golden ratio.
- Represent a pattern using dots, shapes, grids, tables, or a simple chart.
- State the general rule behind a pattern in your own words, using both a term-to-term rule and a position-to-term rule.
- Connect the skill of pattern recognition to computational thinking, and to how machines are taught to “spot” patterns in data.
