Number Spirals

This task opens up an investigation of a different kind of spiral. This may open doors to new ideas.
Exploring and noticing Working systematically Conjecturing and generalising Visualising and representing Reasoning, convincing and proving
Being curious Being resourceful Being resilient Being collaborative

Problem

Let's explore making spirals from the middle outwards.

We'll use a short list of numbers 1 to 144 and some different multiples.

With the multiples of 5 I found these red arrow heads and the green lines that joined up interestingly.

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Number Spirals


A different spiral and looking at the multiples of 4 gave these straight line arrangements - I wonder why, any ideas?

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Number Spirals


Lastly a more open spiral and multiples of 6 showed these sloping lines.

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Number Spirals


You can also draw spirals on triangular paper, here the 4's are highlighted.

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Number Spirals