Top Drawer Teachers

Find the regularity

Describe the patterns in the following examples. What is the reason for these patterns?

A line of footprints on the seashore. A ladder leaning against the outside wall of a house.

Jane made the following drawing and said there was a pattern in it. But her teacher could not see the pattern. Can you?

A child’s drawing of an apparently random assortment of multicoloured circles, stars, and stars within circles.

When you have finished puzzling over these questions, look at some explanations in Explaining Regularities.