Arithmetic sequences

There are 50 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Arithmetic sequences
Missing Middles
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Missing Middles

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of three dominoes?
Skip Counting
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Skip Counting

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Find the squares that Froggie skips onto to get to the pumpkin patch. She starts on 3 and finishes on 30, but she lands only on a square that has a number 3 more than the square she skips from.
Buzzy Bee
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Buzzy Bee

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Buzzy Bee was building a honeycomb. She decorated the honeycomb with a pattern using numbers. Can you discover Buzzy's pattern and fill in the empty cells for her?
Next Domino
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Next Domino

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Which comes next in each pattern of dominoes?
Alphabet Blocks
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Alphabet Blocks

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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These alphabet bricks are painted in a special way. A is on one brick, B on two bricks, and so on. How many bricks will be painted by the time they have got to other letters of the alphabet?
The Great Tiling Count
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The Great Tiling Count

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Compare the numbers of particular tiles in one or all of these three designs, inspired by the floor tiles of a church in Cambridge.
Doplication
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Doplication

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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We can arrange dots in a similar way to the 5 on a dice and they usually sit quite well into a rectangular shape. How many altogether in this 3 by 5? What happens for other sizes?
Matchsticks
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Matchsticks

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Reasoning about the number of matches needed to build squares that share their sides.
Pocket money
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Pocket money

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Which of these pocket money systems would you rather have?