Number Differences
Number Differences
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Number Differences
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Solution
You might like to try A Ring of Numbers and More Rings of Numbers before this
Teachers' Resources problem.
Primary Curriculum Linked
Place the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares below so that the difference
between joined squares is odd. (You must use each of the numbers once.)
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Consecutive
Numbers
An investigation involving
adding and subtracting sets
of consecutive numbers.
Lots to find out, lots to
explore.
Domino Square Can you put the numbers in the squares so that the difference between joined
Use the 'double-3 squares is even?
down' dominoes to make a Explain your answer.
square so that each side has
eight dots.
What general statements can you make about odd and even numbers?
This problem is based on an idea taken from "Apex Maths Pupils' Book 2" by Ann
Montague-Smith and Paul Harrison, published in 2003 by Cambridge University Press.
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