These tasks are connected by their curriculum content and would be best tackled in the order listed. They all offer opportunities to explore and describe number patterns using knowledge of factors and multiples, at increasingly sophisticated levels. In particular, the tasks will help learners become familiar with recognising and describing a 'shifted' times table, such as 'one more than a multiple of three'.
As a set, these problems will give you the chance to focus on all five strands of the rope model: understanding, skills, reasoning, problem solving and attitude.
Lots of Lollies
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?
Times Tables Shifts
In this activity, the computer chooses a times table and shifts it. Can you work out the table and the shift each time?
Satisfying Four Statements
Statement Snap
Charlie's delightful machine
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?