Triangle numbers

There are 31 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Triangle numbers
Take Ten Sticks
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Take Ten Sticks

Age
11 to 16
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Take ten sticks in heaps any way you like. Make a new heap using one from each of the heaps. By repeating that process could the arrangement 7 - 1 - 1 - 1 ever turn up, except by starting with it?
Triangles within Pentagons
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Triangles within Pentagons

Age
14 to 16
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Show that all pentagonal numbers are one third of a triangular number.
Triangles within Squares
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Triangles within Squares

Age
14 to 16
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Can you find a rule which relates triangular numbers to square numbers?
Triangles within Triangles
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Triangles within Triangles

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find a rule which connects consecutive triangular numbers?
Picturing Triangular Numbers
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Picturing Triangular Numbers

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Triangular numbers can be represented by a triangular array of squares. What do you notice about the sum of identical triangle numbers?
A Square Deal
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A Square Deal

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Complete the magic square using the numbers 1 to 25 once each. Each row, column and diagonal adds up to 65.
Graphing Number Patterns
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Graphing Number Patterns

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Does a graph of the triangular numbers cross a graph of the six times table? If so, where? Will a graph of the square numbers cross the times table too?
Iff
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Iff

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Take a triangular number, multiply it by 8 and add 1. What is special about your answer? Can you prove it?
Triangular Triples
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Triangular Triples

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Show that 8778, 10296 and 13530 are three triangular numbers and that they form a Pythagorean triple.
Hot Pursuit
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Hot Pursuit

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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I added together the first 'n' positive integers and found that my answer was a 3 digit number in which all the digits were the same...