What this lesson shows
Towers of cubes grow by 2 each step: 2, 4, 6. Find the rule, then build the next tower and say its number.
The worked example
The lesson works this one step by step: 2, 4, 6, ... Then your kid tries one like it on paper.
The steps
- Look at how it changes
- The change is the rule
- Use the rule for the next one
- Check every step changes the same
Helping at home
Your kid finds how much each number changes, writes the rule, and uses it to write the next two. Ask: "Is it getting bigger or smaller? By how much?"
If your kid gets stuck
Find how much it changes from one number to the next.
Watch it with Lux
With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.
More in this unit
- Counting on and back to 120
- The end of a row
- Skip counting by 2s and 5s
- Tens and ones
- Fifteen is not 51
- Expanded form counts tens
- Many ways to make a number
- Extra ones make a ten
- One more, ten more
- Ten more changes the tens
- Greater than, less than
- Numbers on a number line
- The tens decide first
- About, nearly, and benchmarks
- About how many?