Grade 3 Number Patterns: Find the rule of a 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
Find the Rule of a Pattern
Set 1 · Grade 3 · Number Patterns
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Easy
What is the rule for this pattern? 31, 34, 37, 40
Answer: add 3
What is the rule for this pattern? 56, 61, 66, 71
Answer: add 5
Standard
What is the rule for this pattern? 84, 72, 60, 48, 36
Answer: subtract 12
What is the rule for this pattern? 101, 89, 77, 65, 53
Answer: subtract 12
Challenge
What is the rule for this pattern? 365, 350, 335, 320, 305
Answer: subtract 15
What is the rule for this pattern? 1,000, 900, 800, 700, 600
Answer: subtract 100
Where this skill fits
- Previous skill: Continue an add/subtract pattern
- Next skill: Patterns of multiples
- All grades: Number Patterns worksheets, Grades 1–5
- Same skill in Grade 4: Grade 4 Number Patterns: Find the rule of a pattern
Related Common Core standards
- 3.OA.D.9 — Identify and explain arithmetic patterns (including in the multiplication table).
The task matches what these standards describe at this grade. Common Core–informed practice; not a claim of official alignment.