Number Spirals

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Let's explore making spirals from the middle outwards.

We'll use a short list of numbers repeated over and over again.
Here we see one I've explored a bit. I used the numbers $1$ to $6$ and went anticlockwise.

I noticed that often when I got to the number $6$ I had completed a rectangle.
I coloured these $6$'s yellow and drew a rectangles out of dashes.
You could explore that idea further. There are many other things you can explore.

We could also look at starting it in a different way.

Perhaps you could try a new one using the numbers $1$ to $4$.
Try any other sets of numbers and explore what happens when you use them to form a spiral.