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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 6
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Number Algebra
- Topic
- Patterns and algebra
- Audience
- Students Teachers
- Format
- Video
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M6A01
- Numeracy progression
- Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P5)
- Publisher
- NSW Department of Education
- Copyright
- © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2020 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.
- Keywords
- reasoning
- Other terms
- triangular numbers
