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Patterns in the Tables and Multiples

Explore the patterns that times tables make on a hundred square. Discover why some multiples line up in columns and others create diagonal stripes, and find numbers that belong to more than one table.

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1 Getting Started
2 Watch and Notice
3 Try It Together
4 Ring the Units Pattern in Your Copy
5 Class Challenge
6 What Did We Notice?
7 What's Next
Pupil practice

1 - Getting Started ~4 mins

Here is the hundred square with every multiple of 5 shaded. Look at where they land. What is the same about all of the shaded numbers? Do they make a shape on the grid?

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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2 - Watch and Notice ~9 mins

Four times tables, four different pictures on the same grid. Watch where each one lands and be ready to say what shape it makes.

The last one steps across instead of running straight down. Be ready to say why that happens on a grid that is ten wide.

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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3 - Try It Together ~11 mins

Key point

Now we shade each table in turn and read the pattern aloud. First we do the multiples of 4. Then the multiples of 6. Then the multiples of 9. Last of all, the multiples of 8.

One pupil shades at the board. Everyone else, before that pupil shades, call out which number you think comes next. Your prediction is just a guess, so it is fine to be wrong.

Shade the table

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4 - Ring the Units Pattern in Your Copy ~3 mins

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In your maths copy, write the first ten multiples of 4 in a row:

Now ring the units digit of each one and look down the ringed digits. Can you see a pattern in the ringed digits?

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5 - Class Challenge ~8 mins

Today we hunt for numbers on the grid:

Shade every multiple of 6 up to 60.
Find the numbers that are in both the 2 times table and the 3 times table.
Shade every multiple of 5 that is not a multiple of 10.
Shade every number that appears in the 3s, the 4s and the 6s all at once.

Find the numbers

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Pupil practice

Module 10 · Algebra: Patterns, Rules and Number Sentences Algebra

Lesson 124 · Patterns in the Tables and Multiples

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