Stage: 2 Challenge Level: 
Use counters or scraps of paper with the digits $0 - 9$ written on them.
Make a list of $3$ consecutive numbers $0 - 9$ remembering that $3$ has already been accounted for.
What could the first figure of the product be if the multiplication is by $3$?
Which consecutive numbers could be in the four-digit number?
Which other digit could appear in the four-digit number?
Interactivities. Combinations. Place value. Factors and multiples. Addition & subtraction. Multiplication & division. Working systematically. Digit cards. Visualising. Investigations.
Published September 2002.
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