Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
What is the remainder of $2^{2002}\div 7?$
What happens with different powers of $2$?
Try to explain the mathematics behind what you discover.
Factors and multiples. Visualising. Properties of numbers. Workshop. smartphone. Working systematically. Multiplication & division. Divisibility. Modulus arithmetic. Sequences.
Published October 2002.
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