[en] As part of a research project focusing on investigative approaches to mathematics, a teacher in a Sámi school created an interdisciplinary teaching unit about patterns : skiing- mathematics- Sámi language. The 1–2 grade students painted their own patterns and they created patterns using their skis and poles in the snow. The analysis shows that the students developed their rules for what constitutes a pattern when the context changed from classroom work to skis on snow. One more aspect of pattern is focused : Sámi languages do not use any overarching term for pattern. At least three words are needed to cover the meaning of pattern in the mathematics curriculum.