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Staircase patterns

Uses concrete materials to model patterns in triangular numbers and square numbers. Students are then invited to explore a challenging problem that arises from these observations.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 6
Audience	Student, Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Video
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Targeted teaching
Keywords	case, pattern, growing pattern, triangular numbers, problem-solving, reasoning, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Algebra, Build understanding
Topics	Patterns and algebra
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M6A01 Recognise and use rules that generate visually growing patterns and number patterns involving rational numbers
Numeracy progression	Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P5)
Copyright details
Organisation	NSW Department of Education
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