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Systematic working and recording of results help a lot here.

Conjectures are important, and should be encouraged, but along with a challenge to really explain why any claim might be true generally.

We hope the problem will give students a genuine pleasure in discerning real structure, and lead their interest on into Number Theory.

The articles on the NRICH site (see link from problem page) are an excellent follow-on.