Patterns are predictable sequences, such as stripes (for example, a yellow-green striped shirt) and rhythms (for example, da-de-dum). Young children like to make patterns when they draw and play.

Patterns should probably be part of the Common Core State Standards for kindergarten math. Rittle-Johnson’s most recent research has focused on patterns and whether or not learning about simple, ...

Stripes are common in our lives. It’s a pretty basic pattern, and easy to take for granted. As an applied mathematician who studies how patterns form in nature, though, I am wowed by the striped ...

Author provided The mathematics behind how such never-repeating patterns are created is very useful in understanding how they are formed and even in designing them with specific properties. That is ...

University at Buffalo study characterizes two-dimensional wave patterns such as undular bores that move along two directions.   ...