Number Patterns Starters:A Very Strange Game: Four different actions depending on the number which appears. Abundant Buses: A game based around the concept of abundant numbers. Add 'em: Add up a sequence of consecutive numbers. Can you find a quick way to do it? All The Nines: Add up all the numbers in the nine times table. Ancient Mysteries: This activity requires students to memorise fifteen numbers in a three by five grid. Aunt Sophie's Post Office: Work out the number of stamps needed to post a parcel. Can You Decide?: Recognise odd, even, square, prime and triangular numbers. ChrisMaths: Find a power of 2 and a power of 3 that are consecutive numbers. Christmas Bells: If all the bells ring together at noon, at what time will they next all ring together? This problem requires the use of LCM. Christmas Eve: How many palindromic numbers can you find? Coins in Envelopes: Fifteen pennies are placed in four envelopes and the envelopes are sealed. It is possible to pay someone any amount from 1p to 15p by giving them one or more envelopes. How were the pennies distributed between the envelopes? Consecutive Squares: What do you notice about the difference between the squares of consecutive numbers? Dancing: Work out how many people were at the dance from the clues given. Dice Nets: Determine whether the given nets would fold to produce a dice. Divided Age: How old is a person if when her age is divided by certain numbers, the calculator display ending are as shown. Double Trouble: Begin with one, double it, double it again and so on. How many numbers in this sequence can you write down before the register has been called? Factuples: Spot the factors and the multiples amongst the numbers in the grid. Famous Birthdays: Work out the date Will was born by answering some number questions. Flabbergasted: If each number in a sequence must be a factor or multiple of the previous number what is the longest sequence that can be made from the given numbers? Flowchart: Use the flowchart to generate a sequence of numbers. Which number will reach 1 the fastest? Four problems: For mathematical questions to get everyone thinking at the beginning of the lesson.. Halve it: Start with 512. Halve it to get 256. Halve it to get 128. Continue as far as possible. Handshakes: If all the students in this room shook hands with each other, how many handshakes would there be altogether? Hot Numbers: Move the numbered cards to form five 2 digit numbers which are all multiples of three. Hotel Digital: A puzzle about the lifts in a hotel which serve floors based on the day of the week. House Numbers: The numbers on five houses next to each other add up to 70. What are those five numbers? Last Day: The 31st of December is the last day of the year. What mathematical lasts do you know? Leap Year: A question about the birthdays of a child born on the 29th February. Letters in a Number: Questions about the number of letters in numbers. Maths Riddles: Can you work out the numbers from the given clues. Meta Products: Which numbers when multiplied by the number of letters in the word(s) of the number give square numbers? Missing Terms: Find the missing terms from these linear sequences. Name Again: Work out what the nth letter will be in a recurring pattern of letters in a person's name Negative Numbers: Perform calculations involving negative numbers Odd One Out: From the numbers given, find the one that is the odd one out. Pears Make Squares: Find three numbers such that each pair of numbers adds up to a square number. Perfect Numbers: Six is a perfect number as it is the sum of its factors. Can you find any other perfect numbers? Plane Numbers: Arrange numbers on the plane shaped grid to produce the given totals Pyramid Puzzle: Arrange numbers at the bottom of the pyramid which will give the largest total at the top. Register: When the register is called answer with a multiple of 7. Ropey Snowballs: Arrange the numbers on the snowballs so that no two consecutive numbers are directly connected by rope. Satisfaction: Rearrange the numbers, row and column headings so that this table is mathematically correct. Seeing Squares: How many square numbers can be found in the grid of digits. Sequences 2: Continue the sequences if you can work out the rule. Small Satisfaction: Arrange the numbers one to nine on the grid so they obey the row and column headings. Square and Even: Arrange the numbers on the cards so that each of the three digit numbers formed horizontally are square numbers and each of the three digit numbers formed vertically are even. Square Angles: Find a trapezium, a triangle and a quadrilateral where all of the angles are square numbers. Square Christmas Tree: Draw a picture of a Christmas tree using only square numbers. Square Pairs: Arrange the numbered trees so that adjacent sums are square numbers. Square Sequence: Write out as many square numbers as possible in 4 minutes. Squigits: A challenge to find numbers which have each of their digits as square numbers. The story of ...: Be creative and come up with as many facts about a number as you can think of. Three and a Half: Write down as many multiples of 3.5 as possible in 3.5 minutes. Twelve Days: A Maths puzzle based on the 12 Days of Christmas song. Two Numbers: Find the two numbers whose sum and product are given. Upside Number: Work out the phone number from the clues given. Venn Diagrams: Arrange numbers on the Venn Diagram according to their properties. Warm Up: Four mathematical problems. What are they?: A starter about sums, products, differences, ratios, square and prime numbers.
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Notes:When investigating prime numbers take time to listen to the prologue of a 'This American Life' podcast. Host Ira Glass talks with science writer Paul Hoffman about a mathematician named Frank Nelson Cole, who demonstrated a groundbreaking idea at a conference in 1903. Number Patterns Teacher Resources:Binary Lights: Represent binary numbers with a row of ligts which can be turned on or off. Pesto: Students classify numbers randomly appearing on the screen by holding up cards Prime Square: Drag the numbers into the red cells so that the sum of the three numbers in each row and each column is a prime number. Prison Cell Problem: A number patterns investigation involving prisoners and prison guards. Satisfaction: A number properties investigation Satisfy: A number properties problem Sieve of Eratosthenes: A self checking, interactive version of the Sieve of Eratosthenes method of finding prime numbers. Number Patterns Activities:Consecutive Numbers: Find the consective numbers that are added or multiplied to give the given totals Don't Shoot The Square: Shoot the numbers but don't shoot any square numbers. Hot Numbers: Move the numbered cards to form five 2 digit numbers which are all multiples of two. Missing Terms: Can you work out what numbers are missing from these number sequences? Plane Numbers: Arrange numbers on the plane shaped grid to produce the given totals Prime Square: Drag the numbers into the red cells so that the sum of the three numbers in each row and each column is a prime number. Prison Cell Problem: A number patterns investigation involving prisoners and prison guards. River Crossing: The traditional River Crossing challenge. Can you do it in the smallest number of moves? Satisfaction: A number properties investigation Satisfy: A number properties problem Sieve of Eratosthenes: A self checking, interactive version of the Sieve of Eratosthenes method of finding prime numbers. Square and Even: Arrange the numbers on the cards so that each of the three digit numbers formed horizontally are square numbers and each of the three digit numbers formed vertically are even. Stamp Sticking: Drag stamps onto the envelopes to make the exact postage as shown at the top left of each envelope. Twelve Days: How many gifts did my true love send to me according to the traditional song. Venn Diagram: Place each of the numbers 1 to 16 on the correct regions on the Venn diagram. What Are They?: An exercise about sums, products, differences, ratios, square and prime numbers. Number Patterns Investigations:Decimal Products: Find two decimal numbers that add up to exactly one. What is the product of these two decimals? Digit Sums and Multiples: Investigate numbers which are multiples of the sum of their digits. Handshakes: If everyone in this room shook hands with each other, how many handshakes would there be? Lamp posts: What is the greatest number of lamp-posts that could be needed for a given village? Leapfrog: Can you make the blue and green frogs swap places in the smallest number of moves? lnvestigating stamps: How many different letters can you send with the given stamps. Number Stairs: Find the relationships between the numbers on the grid. Palandromic numbers: How many steps does each number take to become palandromic? Snooker: Investigate a special snooker table with only four pockets. Which hole will the snooker ball fall into for various sized snooker tables? Steps: Investigate this growing sequence of steps. Number Patterns Videos:Finding Prime Factors: A straight forward explanation from SLEP SearchThe activity you are looking for may have been classified in a different way from the way you were expecting. You can search the whole of Transum Maths by using the Google 'Custom Search' box below.
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