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Thank you to everyone who sent in their patterns.

Daniel from Englefield Green Infant School sent us this pattern: 

Thank you, Daniel, for sending in this pattern.

If you look at it very carefully, can you see how it repeats itelf? 

Perhaps you can try out this pattern for yourself. How many green and yellow triangles would you need? If you wanted to make it twice as long, how many triangles would you need altogether?

If anyone makes any other repeating patterns, we'd love to see them and publish a selection on this page! Please do email us with your ideas.