Let's suppose that you are going to have a magazine which has 16
pages of A5 size. Can you find some different ways to make these
pages? Investigate the pattern for each if you number the pages.
This challenge is to design different step arrangements, which must
go along a distance of 6 on the steps and must end up at 6 high.
Can you design a new shape for the twenty-eight squares and arrange
the numbers in a logical way? What patterns do you notice?
We had a collection of responses from Hymers
College School. Katie wrote that while doing the challenge
she found out a lot of different shapes the different tables
made. She added that some people may say "How would you know when
to end the sequence?". But the answer was that the shapes will end
where you started. On a few of the tables she figured that
once you have got the hang of the pattern you would be able to do
the sequence backwards like on the $2$ times table. Ishita
From the same school we also had responses
from Jessica, Jamie and Quintin. Here are their pictures:-
A teacher from Stanmore Primary School
Here are some images they sent
Nina from Wolfson Hillel School sent
us the following notes. These impressed me; particularly her
ideas which led to the picture.