The pattern always work?” They will then make action based on this new awareness of the problem. In this way , the teacher can improve the ability of students to think developmentally and deductively.
This example uses the multiplication of two numbers with the same number for the tens digit and 5 for the ones digit. The patterns that appear in these kinds of calculations are shown in Figure 1. We want students to learn the joy of discovering a pattern that makes calculation easier or the activity of working together to find patterns and think about why they occur.