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Pattern sniffing
This article for primary teachers outlines how we can encourage children to create, identify, extend and explain number patterns and why being able to do so is useful.
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Domino patterns
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
What patterns can you make with a set of dominoes?
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Ring a ring of numbers
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.
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Lots of lollies
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Frances and Rishi were given a bag of lollies. They shared them out evenly and had one left over. How many lollies could there have been in the bag?
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Consecutive numbers
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
An investigation involving adding and subtracting sets of consecutive numbers. Lots to find out, lots to explore.
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Times tables shifts
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
In this activity, the computer chooses a times table and shifts it. Can you work out the table and the shift each time?
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Domino sets
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
How do you know if your set of dominoes is complete?
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More number patterns lower primary
These lower primary activities offer opportunities for children to create, recognise and extend number patterns.
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More number patterns upper primary
These upper primary activities offer opportunities for children to recognise, extend and explain number patterns.
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Digital roots
In this article for teachers, Bernard Bagnall describes how to find
digital roots and suggests that they can be worth exploring when
confronted by a sequence of numbers.