Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
It might help to imagine that each water lily covers a certain area of the lake and notice what happens as they double in size.
Patterned numbers. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Integers. Place value. Number - generally. Fractions. Multiplication & division. Factors and multiples. Properties of numbers. Calculating with fractions.
Published November 2004,December 2004.
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