These alphabet bricks are painted in a special way. A is on one brick, B on two bricks, and so on. How many bricks will be painted by the time they have got to other letters of the alphabet?
Buzzy Bee was building a honeycomb. She decided to decorate the honeycomb with a pattern using numbers. Can you discover Buzzy's pattern and fill in the empty cells for her?
Find the squares that Froggie skips onto to get to the pumpkin patch. She starts on 3 and finishes on 30, but she lands only on a square that has a number 3 more than the square she skips from.
0 0 0 0 : 0 0 1 2 3 4 : 5 6 6 5 4 3 : 2 1 6 5 4 3 : 2 1 6 5 4 3 : 2 1 5 4 3 2 : 1 0
6 5 4 3 : 2 1 6 5 4 3 : 2 1
6 5 4 3 : 2 1 5 4 3 2 : 1 0
Bora from Irmak Primary School, Turkey used some excellent words to describe the patterns.
1st row: 5 and 6, because they are in decreasing order. 2nd row: 2-2 and 1-1, again in decreasing order, this time in doubles. 3rd row: 2-1 and 1-0, again in decreasing order, but both parts are full, upper part goes from 6 to 1, lower from 5 to 0.