1. Working with Students and Patterns
Provide scaffolding by beginning with concrete objects, where students use drawings, words, and symbols to recreate and extend the pattern
Begin with simple, yet attainable patterns but progress rapidly to more complicated ones

2. Work with students to recognize and describe, extend, and generalize ALL patterns whenever possible
Couple this with class discussions where students examine similarities and differences within the pattern
Require that students summarize their findings in writing
Have students use their rule(s) to predict how the pattern will look for several stages
Have students use their rule(s) to predict what each pattern will look like or what its value will be for some large stage number
Ask students to find the appropriate stage number given a description or value of a particular pattern

3. Incorporate the use of a table for each pattern