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Broad Topics > Patterns, Sequences and Structure > Describing patterns and sequences
Cuisenaire Environment
Age 5 to 16 Challenge Level:
An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.
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?
Sets of Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different sets of numbers with at least four members can you find in the numbers in this box?
Function Machines
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
If the numbers 5, 7 and 4 go into this function machine, what numbers will come out?
Sticky Triangles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you continue this pattern of triangles and begin to predict how many sticks are used for each new "layer"?
Lost Books
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
While we were sorting some papers we found 3 strange sheets which seemed to come from small books but there were page numbers at the foot of each page. Did the pages come from the same book?
Sorting the Numbers
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Complete these two jigsaws then put one on top of the other. What happens when you add the 'touching' numbers? What happens when you change the position of the jigsaws?
Beads
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Three beads are threaded on a circular wire and are coloured either red or blue. Can you find all four different combinations?
Caterpillars
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
These caterpillars have 16 parts. What different shapes do they make if each part lies in the small squares of a 4 by 4 square?
Next Number
Age 7 to 11 Short Challenge Level:
Find the next number in this pattern: 3, 7, 19, 55 ...
Exploring Wild & Wonderful Number Patterns
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
EWWNP means Exploring Wild and Wonderful Number Patterns Created by Yourself! Investigate what happens if we create number patterns using some simple rules.
Magazines
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Let's suppose that you are going to have a magazine which has 16 pages of A5 size. Can you find some different ways to make these pages? Investigate the pattern for each if you number the pages.
Centred Squares
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This challenge, written for the Young Mathematicians' Award, invites you to explore 'centred squares'.
Sept03 Sept03 Sept03
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This number has 903 digits. What is the sum of all 903 digits?
Polygonals
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Polygonal numbers are those that are arranged in shapes as they enlarge. Explore the polygonal numbers drawn here.
Steps to the Podium
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
It starts quite simple but great opportunities for number discoveries and patterns!
Taking Steps
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In each of the pictures the invitation is for you to: Count what you see. Identify how you think the pattern would continue.
Sets of Four Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
There are ten children in Becky's group. Can you find a set of numbers for each of them? Are there any other sets?
Rods and Rods
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Using only the red and white rods, how many different ways are there to make up the other colours of rod?
All Seated
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Look carefully at the numbers. What do you notice? Can you make another square using the numbers 1 to 16, that displays the same properties?
Diagonal in a Spiral
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate the totals you get when adding numbers on the diagonal of this pattern in threes.
Month Mania
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you design a new shape for the twenty-eight squares and arrange the numbers in a logical way? What patterns do you notice?
So It's 28
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Here is your chance to investigate the number 28 using shapes, cubes ... in fact anything at all.
Tables Without Tens
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate and explain the patterns that you see from recording just the units digits of numbers in the times tables.
Pattern Power
Age 5 to 14
Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and create.
Calendar Patterns
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this section from a calendar, put a square box around the 1st, 2nd, 8th and 9th. Add all the pairs of numbers. What do you notice about the answers?
Pebbles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?
It's All about 64
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Write the numbers up to 64 in an interesting way so that the shape they make at the end is interesting, different, more exciting ... than just a square.
Sending Cards
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This challenge asks you to investigate the total number of cards that would be sent if four children send one to all three others. How many would be sent if there were five children? Six?
Street Sequences
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street in different ways.
Birds in the Garden
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
This activity asks you to collect information about the birds you see in the garden. Are there patterns in the data or do the birds seem to visit randomly?
Counter Ideas
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here are some ideas to try in the classroom for using counters to investigate number patterns.
The Numbers Give the Design
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Make new patterns from simple turning instructions. You can have a go using pencil and paper or with a floor robot.
More Number Patterns Lower Primary
Age 5 to 7
These lower primary activities offer opportunities for children to create, recognise and extend number patterns.
More Number Patterns Upper Primary
Age 7 to 11
These upper primary activities offer opportunities for children to recognise, extend and explain number patterns.
Pattern Sniffing
Age 5 to 11
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.
More Lower Primary Number Pattern Tasks
Age 5 to 7
Here are some more lower primary number pattern tasks for you to try.
Swimming Pool Tiles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This activity creates an opportunity to explore all kinds of number-related patterns.
Cube Bricks and Daisy Chains
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Daisy and Akram were making number patterns. Daisy was using beads that looked like flowers and Akram was using cube bricks. First they were counting in twos.
Light Blue - Dark Blue
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate the successive areas of light blue in these diagrams.
Bundles of Cubes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Watch this animation. What do you notice? What happens when you try more or fewer cubes in a bundle?
A Shapely Network
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Your challenge is to find the longest way through the network following this rule. You can start and finish anywhere, and with any shape, as long as you follow the correct order.
Lawn Border
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
If I use 12 green tiles to represent my lawn, how many different ways could I arrange them? How many border tiles would I need each time?
Amazing Alphabet Maze
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you go from A to Z right through the alphabet in the hexagonal maze?
Triangular Hexagons
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate these hexagons drawn from different sized equilateral triangles.
Little Squares
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Look at the squares in this problem. What does the next square look like? I draw a square with 81 little squares inside it. How long and how wide is my square?
Digital Roots
Age 7 to 14
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.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.