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, ...

Written for a general audience, Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry (Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam) is the result of their unlikely partnership and lengthy collaboration. The book grew from the course ...

The pattern was first discovered in nature in the 1950s in the energy spectrum of the uranium nucleus, a behemoth with hundreds of moving parts that quivers and stretches in infinitely many ways ...

The pattern emerges in the spectrum of a random matrix, for example, because the matrix elements all enter into the calculation of that spectrum. But random matrices are merely “toy systems” that are ...

But in each case these stars are surrounded by different shapes, which implies that the whole pattern never repeats in any direction. Therefore this graphic is an example of a pattern that has ...