Grade 4 Number Patterns: Find the nth number in a pattern
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What students practice: Finding a later term extends, but is not stated in, 4.OA.C.5.
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Grade 4 · Number Patterns
Find the Nth Number in a Pattern
Set 1 · Grade 4 · Number Patterns
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Easy
A pattern starts at 19 and adds 5 each time. What is the 7th number in the pattern?
Answer: 49
A pattern starts at 2 and adds 5 each time. What is the 9th number in the pattern?
Answer: 42
Standard
A pattern starts at 9 and adds 6 each time. What is the 15th number in the pattern?
Answer: 93
A pattern starts at 13 and adds 10 each time. What is the 12th number in the pattern?
Answer: 123
Challenge
A pattern starts at 161 and subtracts 7 each time. What is the 23rd number in the pattern?
Answer: 7
A pattern starts at 24 and adds 3 each time. What is the 20th number in the pattern?
Answer: 81
Where this skill fits
- Previous skill: Generate a pattern from a rule
- Next skill: Find the rule of a pattern
- All grades: Number Patterns worksheets, Grades 1–5
Related Common Core standards
- 4.OA.C.5 — Generate and analyze a number pattern from a given rule.
The match is approximate (a prerequisite, extension or different context), so treat this as related practice rather than coverage of the standard. Common Core–informed practice; not a claim of official alignment.