Counting Patterns

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The Counting Patterns exercise set provides short counting sequences for students to fill in the missing numbers. The exercises reinforce number positioning and relationships. This is also a great exercise set for introducing the order of negative integers.

Tip

You can customize the text that appears just above the counting pattern boxes. Double-click the text just above the boxes and an Edit Exercise box appears. Update the text for Pattern Instructions then click OK to close the editor and apply your text changes. This custom text will be saved if the document is saved, but if you click Generate the text will be updated again with the program's default text, so customize the text last before printing or saving the document.

Change the number of exercises

Click on the box labeled "Number of Exercises" in the options panel.
Type in a new number or use the up and down arrows to change the value. You can choose any number from 1 to 200.

Change the number of exercises in a row

Select "Exercises per Row" in the options panel.
Click the down arrow to choose a new number from the list or use Auto.

Notes:

If you are using the default auto settings, the number of questions per row will change automatically when you adjust the font size or the low/high number ranges.
For word problems exercises sets, you can only choose 1 or 2 exercises per row.

Change the row spacing

Set the spacing between rows of exercises in 100ths of an inch (25 = 1/4 inch, 40 = 1cm).

Select the input field for the Row Spacing option in the options pane.
Type a new value in the field or use the up and down arrows to increase or decrease the value. Valid range is 0 to 300.

Show title

To show the exercise set Title, select the check box for the Show Title option in the options pane.
To hide the exercise set title, deselect the check box.

Show instructions

To show the exercise set Instructions, select the check box for the Show Instructions option in the options pane.
To hide the exercise set instructions, deselect the check box.

Show duplicate warning

When this option is selected, a warning is displayed if there are any duplicate exercises in the exercise set. To hide the duplicate warning, uncheck the Show Duplicate Warning option in the options pane.

Set the number of counts

To set the number of counts, select the input field for the Number of Counts option in the options pane.
Type a new value in the field or use the up and down arrows to increase or decrease the value. Valid values are 5 to 20.

Set the count direction

To change the count direction, select the Direction option in the options pane.
Select the desired count direction: ascending (1,2,3,4...) or descending (12, 11, 10...).

Set the percentage of hints

To set the percentage of hints to be used for the exercise set, select Hints in the options pane.
Select the bubble by the desired percentage of hints.

Change the cell size

Sets the cell size in 100ths of an inch (25 = 1/4 inch, 50 = 1 cm).

Select the input field for the Cell Size option in the options pane.
Type a new value in the field or use the up and down arrows to increase or decrease the value. Valid values are 25 to 100.

Count By and Start At

Set up the ranges for both Count By and Start At.

Change the range of values

To achieve values within a set range, set the the high end of the range and the low end of the range.

To set the high end of the range, select the input field for the Range High option in the options pane and enter a new value to the maximum allowed for that exercise.
To set the low end of the range, select the input field for the Range Low option in the options pane and enter a new value to the minimum allowed for that exercise.

Note

To locate the range for any particular option, check the definition area at the bottom of the options pane when an option is selected. Some exercises allow negative values to be entered for either the high or low end of the range by using the hyphen as the negative sign, i.e. -10, -999, -1000.