Patterning & Attributes

What attribute did you use when

creating your patterns last week?
size
colour

shape

1. Look at your attribute block

2. With your elbow partner (person beside
you), describe your attribute bloc
3. Find someone whose shape differs by one
attribute.
4. Now find someone whose shape differs by
two attributes.

Is this a pattern?

How do you know?

What pattern family does this pattern
belong to?

How can we show that this pattern belongs to

two pattern families?

AB SHAPE
ABC COLOUR

 What is the directional pattern? AB

What is the colour pattern? ABAC

 What attributes do you see?

shape Pattern is ABB
colour Pattern is ABA
size Pattern is ABC

Create your own

With your partner, create a pattern that has
two attributes that change belonging to two
pattern families.

CHALLENGE: create a pattern that has three

attributes that change.

Sorting
How can we sort these attribute
blocks?

VENN DIAGRAM

SIZE

SHAPE

Sorting
How can we sort these attribute
blocks?

VENN DIAGRAM
SHAPE

SIZE

COLOUR