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Conjectures About Numbers

This document discusses testing conjectures through examples and reasoning. Students are asked to test conjectures about the sums and products of even and odd numbers, as well as conjectures involving prime numbers and operations like multiplication and addition. They are to decide if the conjectures are true or false and explain their reasoning.

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Conjectures About Numbers

This document discusses testing conjectures through examples and reasoning. Students are asked to test conjectures about the sums and products of even and odd numbers, as well as conjectures involving prime numbers and operations like multiplication and addition. They are to decide if the conjectures are true or false and explain their reasoning.

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Conjectures about number 2

Here is a conjecture.

When you add an odd and an even number, the answer is always odd.

Filip and Annie are testing this conjecture.


a) Filip writes 2 + 3 = 5
1 Here are four number cards.
He says, “My calculation shows that when you add an even and an odd
4 6 12 8 number, the answer is always odd.”

There are six different pairs of numbers that can be made from the cards. Why is one result not enough to prove a conjecture?

a) Work out the sum of each pair of numbers.


b) Annie tests the conjecture using pictures.

4+6= 4 + 12 = 4+8=
All even numbers are
6 + 12 = 6+8= 12 + 8 = multiples of two, so can
be shown like this:
b) Here is a conjecture.
Odd numbers are always
When you add two even numbers, the answer is always even. one more than an even

number, so can be shown
Test the conjecture with some other pairs of even numbers. like this:
Do you think the conjecture is true?
Here’s what happens when
Explain your answer. you add an even number
and an odd number:

Explain why Annie’s last picture shows that when you add an odd and
c) Work out the product of each pair of numbers. an even number, the answer is always odd.

4×6= 4 × 12 = 4×8= c) Use Annie’s method to prove this conjecture.

6 × 12 = 6×8= 12 × 8 = When you add two even numbers, the answer is always even.

d) Make a conjecture about the result when finding the product of


even numbers.

Compare your conjecture with a partner’s.


Discuss whether it is true. © White Rose Maths 2020
3 Make a conjecture about the result when finding the sum of two 5 Test the conjectures and decide if you think they are true or false.
odd numbers. Explain your answers.

a) When you add two negative numbers, the answer is always negative.

true false
Prove your conjecture.

4 Dani conjectures, “All prime numbers greater than 3 are either one more b) The product of two odd numbers is always odd.
or one less than a multiple of 6”
true false
a) Shade the prime numbers
on this grid to test
Dani’s conjecture.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Do you agree with Dani’s conjecture?
8 9 10 11 12 13
 The sum of two positive odd numbers is always greater
14 15 16 17 18 19 c)
Discuss it with a partner. than their difference.
20 21 22 23 24 25
b) Tick some numbers that are 2 true false
less or 2 more than multiples 26 27 28 29 30 31
of 6 and explain why these
32 33 34 35 36 37
cannot be prime.
38 39 40 41 42 43

44 45 46 47 48 49

50 51 52 53 54 55 d) Multiplying by a number less than 1 always gives a smaller number.


56 57 58 59 60 61
true false
c) Circle some numbers that are 62 63 64 65 66 67
3 less or 3 more than multiples
68 69 70 71 72 73
of 6 and explain why these
cannot be prime. 74 75 76 77 78 79

80 81 82 83 84 85

86 87 88 89 90 91

92 93 94 95 96 97 Compare your answers with a partner’s.

What can you now conclude about Dani's conjecture?


© White Rose Maths 2020

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