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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.
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| Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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| 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 |
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| 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)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Inquiry Maths |
| Copyright | © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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