Arithmetic sequences

  • 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.
  • problem

    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
    problem

    Pocket money

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