Name: ______Date: ______Period: ______
Color Coded Problem Solving: Highlight the essential question(s) in pink. Highlight the important data in yellow. Solve the problem and write the answer in a complete sentence, restating the question.
Pattern: Problem 1
Bertha Busybee wants to label the hexagonal cells in the honeycomb using the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F in a systematic fashion. She started lettering the cells following a special pattern. Can you discover the pattern and fill in the letters for the blank cells?
Solve:
Pattern: Problem 2
Pat Tern decided to stump Ima Puzzle with the following sequences of names. Determine the pattern and supply a name on each line that will continue the pattern.
1. Al, Ben, Chad, ______
2. Jan, Kate, Libby, ______
3. Matilda, Lionel, Karen, ______
Workspace:
Name: ______Date: ______Period: ______
Color Coded Problem Solving: Highlight the essential question(s) in pink. Highlight the important data in yellow. Solve the problem and write the answer in a complete sentence, restating the question.
Pattern: Problem 3
The ladybug convention met in Tiger Lily’s garden. On the first day there were 7 ladybugs. On the second day there were 15 ladybugs, and then 24 on the third day. At this rate, how many ladybugs will there be on the 8th day?
Solve:
Answer (Complete Sentence):
Pattern: Problem 4
Shelly Counter is researching sea-shells and has discovered that the structure of a nautilus shell duplicates a numerical pattern discovered by the mathematician Fibonacci. The progression is
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 _____, _____
What two number should come next in this series and what is Fibonacci’s pattern?
Solve:
Name: ______Date: ______Period: ______
Color Coded Problem Solving: Highlight the essential question(s) in pink. Highlight the important data in yellow. Solve the problem and write the answer in a complete sentence, restating the question.
Pattern: Problem 5
Dee Sparing is having a difficult time learning patterns. Before she gets totally frustrated, help her by filling in the next two numbers for each given response and identifying the rule for the pattern.
1, 4, 2, 5, 3, 6, 4, _____, _____, Rule:
11, 30, 22, 40, 33, _____, _____ Rule:
3, 6, 4, 8, 6, 12, _____, _____ Rule:
5, 3, 8, 6, 11, 9, 14, _____, _____ Rule:
Pattern: Problem 6
Butch R. Block was trying to figure out the following patterns. Help Butch by supplying the next 2 numbers or letters for each sequence and describing the pattern for each sequence.
a) 1, 4, 9, 16, ______, ______
Rule:: ______
b) B, C, E, F, H, I, ______, ______
Rule:: ______
c) 100, 52, 28, 16, ______, ______
Rule:: ______
d) Z, 1, W, 3, T, 5, ______, ______
Rule:: ______
e) 1, 5, 10, 14, 28, ______, ______
Rule:: ______
f) 0.5, 0.8, 0.6, 0.9, 0.7, ______, ______
Rule:: ______
g) at, bat, cats, ______, ______
Rule:: ______
Name: ______Date: ______Period: ______
Color Coded Problem Solving: Highlight the essential question(s) in pink. Highlight the important data in yellow. Solve the problem and write the answer in a complete sentence, restating the question.
Topic 2: Inductive Reasoning- Problem 2.1
Figure out the pattern and then fill in the next two in the sequence. Write the rule for each pattern.
1) 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, ______, ______Rule:
2) 100, 95, 90, 85, 80, ______, ______Rule:
3)
______, ______
Rule:
4)
Rule:
5) , , , , , ______, ______Rule:
6) 1.0, 0.9, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 0.5, ______, ______Rule:
7)
Rule:
8)
______, ______