Patterns that shrink

1. What comes next? 15, 12, 9, 6, __

Answer:

2. What comes next? 110, 100, 90, 80, __

• 60
• 70
• 75
• 85

3. What comes next? 9, 8, 7, 6, __

Answer:

4. Is 2, 4, 8, 16 growing or shrinking?

• Growing
• Shrinking
• Repeating
• Neither

5. What comes next? 50, 45, 40, 35, __

Answer:

6. In 24, 22, 20, 18 the rule is take away 2 each time.

• True
• False

7. What is the rule? 40, 30, 20, 10

• Take away 10
• Add 10
• Take away 5
• Add 20

8. Tap these to count back by tens, largest first.

70 100 80 90

Answer:

9. What is missing? 18, 15, __, 9, 6

Answer:

10. A shrinking pattern always …

• gets smaller
• gets bigger
• stays the same
• repeats