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This interactive web-based resource challenges students to find all of the multiples for a number on Pascal's Triangle.

Pascal's Triangle is a triangle of numbers, each new number being the sum of the two above it. (It was actually first discovered by Zhu Shijie, a Chinese mathematician from the fourteenth century. Pascal described the triangle three hundred years later.) Students can use this activity to:

 

• practice multiplication skills
• practice pattern recognition skills
• explore Pascal's triangle
• introduce the concept of fractals

 

The following resource is available to help guide the students' investigations.

Exploration Questions

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