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Generalising. Describing patterns and sequences. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Area - triangles, quadrilaterals, compound shapes. Interactivities. Creating and manipulating expressions and formulae. Symmetry. Pythagoras' theorem. Visualising. Factors and multiples.There are 35 results
Broad Topics > Patterns, Sequences and Structure > Describing patterns and sequences
Partly Painted Cube
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Jo made a cube from some smaller cubes, painted some of the faces of the large cube, and then took it apart again. 45 small cubes had no paint on them at all. How many small cubes did Jo use?
Attractive Tablecloths
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
Pattern Power
Age 5 to 14
Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and create.
Seven Squares - Group-worthy Task
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Choose a couple of the sequences. Try to picture how to make the next, and the next, and the next... Can you describe your reasoning?
Tower of Hanoi
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The Tower of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical challenge. Working on the building blocks may help you to explain the patterns you notice.
Frogs
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?
Triangle Numbers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Take a look at the multiplication square. The first eleven triangle numbers have been identified. Can you see a pattern? Does the pattern continue?
Quadratic Patterns
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Surprising numerical patterns can be explained using algebra and diagrams...
Picturing Triangular Numbers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Triangular numbers can be represented by a triangular array of squares. What do you notice about the sum of identical triangle numbers?
Beach Huts
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you figure out how sequences of beach huts are generated?
Steps to the Podium
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
It starts quite simple but great opportunities for number discoveries and patterns!
Train Spotters' Paradise
Age 11 to 16
Dave Hewitt suggests that there might be more to mathematics than looking at numerical results, finding patterns and generalising.
Magic Letters
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Charlie has made a Magic V. Can you use his example to make some more? And how about Magic Ls, Ns and Ws?
Summing Consecutive Numbers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
15 = 7 + 8 and 10 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers?
Odds, Evens and More Evens
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Alison, Bernard and Charlie have been exploring sequences of odd and even numbers, which raise some intriguing questions...
Painted Cube
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Imagine a large cube made from small red cubes being dropped into a pot of yellow paint. How many of the small cubes will have yellow paint on their faces?
Seven Squares
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Watch these videos to see how Phoebe, Alice and Luke chose to draw 7 squares. How would they draw 100?
Changing Places
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4x4 array, which is covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves. . . .
Maxagon
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What's the greatest number of sides a polygon on a dotty grid could have?
Days and Dates
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Investigate how you can work out what day of the week your birthday will be on next year, and the year after...
Paving Paths
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
How many different ways can I lay 10 paving slabs, each 2 foot by 1 foot, to make a path 2 foot wide and 10 foot long from my back door into my garden, without cutting any of the paving slabs?
Elevenses
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
How many pairs of numbers can you find that add up to a multiple of 11? Do you notice anything interesting about your results?
Growing Surprises
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find the connections between linear and quadratic patterns?
1 Step 2 Step
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Liam's house has a staircase with 12 steps. He can go down the steps one at a time or two at time. In how many different ways can Liam go down the 12 steps?
Magic Crosses
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find examples of magic crosses? Can you find all the possibilities?
Picturing Square Numbers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Square numbers can be represented as the sum of consecutive odd numbers. What is the sum of 1 + 3 + ..... + 149 + 151 + 153?
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.
Shifting Times Tables
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up or down?
Fibonacci Surprises
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Play around with the Fibonacci sequence and discover some surprising results!
Farey Sequences
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
There are lots of ideas to explore in these sequences of ordered fractions.
Even Up
Age 11 to 14 Short Challenge Level:
Consider all of the five digit numbers which we can form using only the digits 2, 4, 6 and 8. If these numbers are arranged in ascending order, what is the 512th number?
Cuisenaire Environment
Age 5 to 16 Challenge Level:
An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.
Pocket Money
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Which of these pocket money systems would you rather have?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.