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Matchsticks

Reasoning about the number of matches needed to build squares that share their sides.

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Tangram Paradox

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Taking Steps

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

In each of the pictures the invitation is for you to:

Count what you see:
how many bricks? sectors? circles?


Identify how you think the pattern would continue:
how many will be in the next layer/ level?


Look at what would happen if you started (or ended) with a different number of items:
how many will there be in total?
Pattern of bricks piled in a pyramid
Radial Pattern of chains joined at the centre and by a circle of chains around the edge
7 circles inside each of 4 circles inside one large circle

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