Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
Can you spot a pattern in the answers?
All the answers are 2 and a bit and that bit seems to get smaller. What can you say about it? Can you explain why the pattern arises?
Limits. Generalising. Fractions. Calculating with fractions. smartphone. Interactivities. Sequences. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Visualising. Creating expressions/formulae.
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