Describing patterns and sequences

There are 124 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Describing patterns and sequences
Month Mania
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Month mania

Age
5 to 11
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Can you design a new shape for the twenty-eight squares and arrange the numbers in a logical way? What patterns do you notice?
Next Number
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Next number

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Find the next number in this pattern: 3, 7, 19, 55 ...
Light Blue - Dark Blue
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Light blue - dark blue

Age
7 to 11
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Investigate the successive areas of light blue in these diagrams.
Mean Sequence
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Mean sequence

Age
11 to 14
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Weekly Problem 38 - 2009
This sequence is given by the mean of the previous two terms. What is the fifth term in the sequence?
Taking a Die for a Walk
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Taking a die for a walk

Age
5 to 11
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Investigate the numbers that come up on a die as you roll it in the direction of north, south, east and west, without going over the path it's already made.
A Calendar Question
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A calendar question

Age
7 to 11
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July 1st 2001 was on a Sunday. July 1st 2002 was on a Monday. When did July 1st fall on a Monday again?
All seated
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All seated

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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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?
Tables Without Tens
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Tables without tens

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Investigate and explain the patterns that you see from recording just the units digits of numbers in the times tables.
So it's 28
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So it's 28

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Here is your chance to investigate the number 28 using shapes, cubes ... in fact anything at all.
It's all about 64
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It's all about 64

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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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.