After making a quilt block, one student secretly removes part of the block. The other student uses the patterns in the quilt block to replace what has been removed. Students discuss how they decided what was missing. Each partner uses the linking cubes to make a linear pattern. The partners trade patterns and try to continue the other partner's pattern.
Students discuss the similarities and differences of their patterns.
One partner secretly removes part of the pattern from somewhere in the middle of the pattern. The other partner will try to determine what is missing from the pattern. Encourage students to discuss the possibility of there being more than one pattern that could be made when inserting the missing piece. A student, or the teacher, claps a pattern, or plays a pattern with a musical instrument. A partner, or the rest of the class in a whole-group activity, replicates the rhythmic pattern.