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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.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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| 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 |
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| 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)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | NSW Department of Education |
| Copyright | © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2020 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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