Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
I used a spreadsheet to get the sense of what was happening. It is easy to see the pattern but the question is asking you to try to explain it!
Workshop. Divisibility. Modulus arithmetic. Factors and multiples. smartphone. Properties of numbers. Sequences. Working systematically. Multiplication & division. Visualising.
Published October 2002.
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