Patterns and puzzles

Worksheet: Patterns and puzzles

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Answer the questions.

1. What comes next? 2, 4, 6, 8, ...
   a) 10b) 11c) 12d) 9
2. What comes next? 20, 18, 16, 14, ...
   a) 10b) 12c) 13d) 15
3. What comes next? 5, 10, 15, 20, ...
   a) 21b) 22c) 25d) 30
4. What comes next? 100, 90, 80, 70, ...
   a) 50b) 60c) 65d) 75
5. In the pattern 10, 9, 8, 7, the next number is 6.
   a) Trueb) False
6. Apple, banana and pear are fruits. Which one of these is not a fruit?
   a) a carrotb) a grapec) a plumd) an orange
7. Which of these is NOT an even number?
   a) 10b) 12c) 8d) 9
8. Which does not belong with a pencil, a pen and a crayon?
   a) a bananab) a markerc) a paintbrushd) a piece of chalk
9. I am big and grey, with a long trunk and big ears. What am I?
   a) a dolphinb) a horsec) a rabbitd) an elephant
10. I am white and cold and fall from the sky in winter. Children build me into a man. What am I?
11. What has four legs and a flat top, and you eat your dinner on it?
12. The numbers 3, 6, 9, 12 are all in the same pattern of counting in threes.
    a) Trueb) False
13. Sort by a rule: which group do 3, 5, 9, 11 belong to?
    a) even numbersb) numbers over 20c) odd numbersd) tens numbers
14. Which rule sorts these? shirt, socks, shoes, hat
    a) things that flyb) things we eatc) things we weard) things with wheels
15. A whale belongs in the group with a sparrow, an eagle and a parrot because they all fly.
    a) Trueb) False
16. What comes next? 50, 45, 40, 35, ...