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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks Student activities Teaching resource
- Strand
- Number Algebra
- Topic
- Operating with number Patterns and algebra
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8A01
- Numeracy progression
- Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P7)
- Publisher
- Inquiry Maths
- Copyright
- © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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