Patterns

What comes next? ● ■ ● ■ ● ■ ● ___

Here is a repeating pattern: 🍎 🍌 🍌 🍎 🍌 🍌 🍎 🍌 🍌 … What is its unit — the part that repeats?

What number comes next? 2, 4, 6, 8, ___

The pattern 5, 10, 15, 20, … adds 5 each time. What is the 6th number in the pattern?

Thandi's necklace goes red, blue, green, red, blue, green, … What colour is bead 20?

Today is Wednesday. What day of the week will it be in 14 days?

A clapping game goes: clap, clap, stamp, clap, clap, stamp, … In the first 12 moves, how many claps are there?

A pattern starts 1, 2, 4, … Nia says the next number is 8. Diego says it is 7. Who could be right?

Gideon's game: true or false? "In any repeating pattern whose unit has 4 items, item 5 and item 9 are the same."

Margaret's computer checked the remainder shortcut for beads 1 to 1,000 and found no mistakes. Can we be sure the shortcut works for bead 5,000 too?