Patterns provide ample material for counting (later they can introduce addition and multiplication). How many kinds of shapes are here? How many tokens in every kind? How many colors and how many tokens of every color? Are the quantities of the tokens of the different colors equal? Build this pattern and take it apart moving peg by peg to a counting board.

To sort out this pattern, please click below to select red, blue, green or yellow. How the different color layouts are different? Click on REPLAY to see them all at once.

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