Dragon's Pattern Playground – Number Patterns Worksheet (IB PYP Grade 1)

About This Worksheet

Repeating, growing and counting patterns all in one playground. This colourful, printable IB PYP Grade 1 Mathematics worksheet gives young learners focused practice with number patterns, with a friendly dragon to guide them. It has a name, class and date box for students, the mindtested.com header and footer, and a teacher answer key on page 2.

What Questions Are in This Worksheet?

There are 3 activities worth 7 marks in total:

• Activity A: Finding the core of a repeating pattern.
• Activity B: Finding the rule of a number pattern.
• Activity C: Finding the next step in a growing pattern.

What Your Child Will Practise

• Finding the core of a pattern
• Skip counting in twos, fives and tens
• Finding the rule of a number pattern
• Continuing repeating picture patterns

How to Use This Worksheet

1. Print the PDF on A4 paper (colour is best, but black and white works too).
2. Read each instruction aloud together before your child starts.
3. Let your child try every activity independently first.
4. Mark with the answer key on page 2 and talk through any mistakes.

Tip: five to ten minutes of regular practice works better for Grade 1 learners than one long session. Colour in the dragon when the worksheet is finished as a small reward.

Ideal for classroom use, homework, tutoring or home learning in the IB PYP Number strand, where learners spot, continue and explain repeating, growing and counting patterns. Answer key included.