This element involves students identifying trends and describing and using a wide range of rules and relationships to continue and predict patterns.
Students apply their understanding of patterns and relationships when solving problems in authentic contexts.
Level 3
Typically by the end of Year 4, students:
Recognise and use patterns and relationships
identify and describe trends in everyday patterns
Level 4
Typically by the end of Year 6, students:
Recognise and use patterns and relationships
identify and describe pattern rules and relationships that help to identify trends
Level 5
Typically by the end of Year 8, students:
Recognise and use patterns and relationships
identify trends using number rules and relationships