Conjecturing and generalising

Imagine an infinitely large sheet of square dotty paper on which you can draw triangles of any size you wish (providing each vertex is on a dot). What areas is it/is it not possible to draw?

Can you dissect a square into: 4, 7, 10, 13... other squares? 6, 9, 12, 15... other squares? 8, 11, 14... other squares?

In each of the pictures the invitation is for you to: Count what you see. Identify how you think the pattern would continue.

There are lots of ideas to explore in these sequences of ordered fractions.

A polite number can be written as the sum of two or more consecutive positive integers, for example 8+9+10=27 is a polite number. Can you find some more polite, and impolite, numbers?

For which values of n is the Fibonacci number fn even? Which Fibonnaci numbers are divisible by 3?

First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to eat chocolate. Multiply this number by 2...

How many more miles must the car travel before the numbers on the milometer and the trip meter contain the same digits in the same order?

Think of a number, add one, double it, take away 3, add the number you first thought of, add 7, divide by 3 and take away the number you first thought of. You should now be left with 2. How do I know?

Equal touching circles have centres on a line. From a point of this line on a circle, a tangent is drawn to the farthest circle. Find the lengths of chords where the line cuts the other circles.