Skip to content
LessonPrint

Patterns — Find the Rule is a free printable Grade 4 maths worksheet on naming an additive rule with a larger step, aligned to Common Core standard 4.OA.C.5. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

Set 25 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

Next setLesson plan

One paper per pupil

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425

Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

Patterns — Find the Rule

4.OA.C.5

NameDate

Write the rule and the next number.

1.8, 20, 32, 44, 56, ___ What is the rule?
2.2, 10, 18, 26, 34, ___ What is the rule?
3.6, 14, 22, 30, 38, ___ What is the rule?
4.6, 18, 30, 42, 54, ___ What is the rule?
5.7, 17, 27, 37, 47, ___ What is the rule?
6.1, 9, 17, 25, 33, ___ What is the rule?
7.5, 13, 21, 29, 37, ___ What is the rule?
8.5, 16, 27, 38, 49, ___ What is the rule?

LessonPrint · 4.OA.C.5 · Set 25 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Patterns — Find the Rule

Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.add 12; next is 68
  2. 2.add 8; next is 42
  3. 3.add 8; next is 46
  4. 4.add 12; next is 66
  5. 5.add 10; next is 57
  6. 6.add 8; next is 41
  7. 7.add 8; next is 45
  8. 8.add 11; next is 60

More practice for 4.OA.C.5

Make and describe patterns that follow a rule.

Teaching this next? Generating Number Patterns is the 50-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

All Grade 4 worksheets

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4.OA.C.5 of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics.