TEKS Math Standard: 1.2.C

Scrambled up somewhere in 161,000 is a first name. Can you find it!?

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

These flowers sure are getting bigger faster! How large will they be in step 10? What about step 50?

What if we make a huge spiral of numbers and then highlight only the primes? Well, a bunch of weird patterns show up!

Imagine a world with no hundreds place. We’d have to call it ten tens instead. But then, what would we call the thousands place? How would we read 9999? What if we added one more?

Every positive integer can be written as the sum of (at most) four perfect squares!

Place value is something we cover in elementary school. It seems simple, but I’d wager that very few adults really understand the topic. I sure didn’t until I worked with non-base-10 number systems in college. Your students can get a taste of this mind-boggling experience by imagining what it would be like if we didn’t have the number 9. What would each digit represent then?

Using this one weird trick, it seems that you can turn any number into a palindrome!