Pattern Finding Intro
Students who are learning to read focus so much on decoding that there is little room left for comprehension. This is where pattern recognition can help. Being adept at pattern recognition helps relieve students' cognitive load, and helps them do things automatically. The better our brains are at quickly finding patterns, the more we can focus on other aspects of the task. The end goal of pattern recognition is to help our brains (or computers) achieve automation.
We ask our students to find patterns all the time in every subject. Follow the links below to get a better idea of how improving students' pattern-finding capabilities can help them become better problem solvers.