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Number line inquiry

This simple prompt invites students to look at the difference between two products and if the difference between the products of consecutive numbers is always the same. The resource includes classroom examples, teacher notes and guided questions.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Assessment task, Extension, Student task, Teaching resource
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Explicit teaching, Feedback, Mathematics investigation
Keywords	product, consecutive numbers
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Apply understanding, Build understanding, Algebra
Topics	Operating with number, Patterns and algebra
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M8A01 Create, expand, factorise, rearrange and simplify linear expressions, applying the associative, commutative, identity, distributive and inverse properties
Numeracy progression	Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P7)
Copyright details
Organisation	Inquiry Maths
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