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Investigation Bank Books - Books 1 to 10

These investigation booklets from Eigen publications mainly support number skills and the development of number properties as well as encouraging students to be systematic and to look for patterns.

* One to four investigations involving building numbers from specified starting numbers and mathematical operations.

* Consecutive sums contain detailed support for the investigation of sums of consecutive integers.

* Square numbers 1 includes investigations such as; sums, differences, final digits of square numbers and much more.

* Square numbers 2 includes additional investigations such as Happy Numbers and Sneaky Numbers based on square numbers and patterns related to them.

* Routes provides substantial support for investigations of routes across square and isometric grids.

* Darts provides number investigations on standard and simplified dartboards.

* Triangular numbers focuses on number properties (including factors), links to square numbers and also to pentagonal and hexagonal numbers.

* Hexagonal numbers considers patterns in hexagonal numbers and central hexagonal numbers.

* Divisors investigates the number of divisors and then progresses to the properties of numbers with the same number of divisors.

* Pins explores the 74 distinct polygonal shapes that can be made on a nine-pin square geoboard.

These booklets are largely independent of each other apart from the obvious pair.  

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Subject(s)Mathematics
Age7-11, 11-14
Published1980 - 1989
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