Number Patterns

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Number Patterns

Explore these lower primary activities which focus on making, recognising and continuing number patterns. Push yourself to try and explain why the patterns occur.

Domino Patterns link

Domino Patterns 

Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

What patterns can you make with a set of dominoes?

Ring a Ring of Numbers link

Ring a Ring of Numbers 

Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.

Lots of Lollies link

Lots of Lollies 

Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

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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