Grade 3 Number Patterns: Continue an add/subtract pattern

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What students practice: Identifying and describing arithmetic patterns, including patterns of multiples.

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Grade 3 · Number Patterns

Continue an Add/subtract Pattern

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Set 1 · Grade 3 · Number Patterns

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Easy

Write the next 3 numbers in the pattern: 53, 58, 63, 68
Answer: 73, 78, 83
Write the next 3 numbers in the pattern: 36, 40, 44, 48
Answer: 52, 56, 60

Standard

Write the next 3 numbers in the pattern: 148, 160, 172, 184, 196
Answer: 208, 220, 232
Write the next 3 numbers in the pattern: 150, 157, 164, 171, 178
Answer: 185, 192, 199

Challenge

Write the next 3 numbers in the pattern: 622, 607, 592, 577, 562
Answer: 547, 532, 517
Write the next 3 numbers in the pattern: 206, 191, 176, 161, 146
Answer: 131, 116, 101

Where this skill fits

Next skill: Find the rule of a pattern
All grades: Number Patterns worksheets, Grades 1–5

Related Common Core standards

3.OA.D.9 — Identify and explain arithmetic patterns (including in the multiplication table).

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