Level 3
The following is a sequence of numbers.
  1. Find the 39th number.
  2. Find the 40th number.
3 m
Level 3
Tina used stars and sticks to make the following patterns.
  1. How many stars are there in Pattern 5?
  2. If Tina counted 289 stars, which pattern number had she made?
  3. How many stars are there in Pattern 120?
3 m
Level 3
Consider the pattern.
  1. What is the sum of Row 9?
  2. What is the sum of Row 50?
  3. If the sum is 2702, what is the row number?
3 m
Level 2
The first three figures of a sequence are shown. The table records the number of shaded and unshaded rhombuses in each figure.
  1. Find the number of unshaded rhombuses in Figure 10?
  2. Find the number of shaded rhombuses in Figure 40?
  3. Which figure number has 804 shaded rhombuses?
3 m
Level 3
The patterns show a sequence of shapes. Each shape has a number of small right-angled triangles. A dot is placed at each point where there is a vertex of one or more right-angled triangles. The total number of dots and the number of small right-angled triangles of each figure is shown in a table.
  1. Find the total number of dots required to form Pattern 4.
  2. Find the total number of dots required to form Pattern 20.
  3. Find the number of small right-angled triangles in Pattern 50.
3 m
Level 3
Some patterns of shaded and unshaded small triangles is given. The unshaded triangles are those which have at least one side on the edge of the big triangle. All of the other small triangles are shaded. The table below shows numbers of small triangles.
  1. Find the total number of triangles in Pattern 80.
  2. Find the number of shaded triangles in Pattern 40.
  3. Find the number of unshaded triangles in Pattern 50.
3 m
Level 3
The figure shows a series of steps built using square cubes. The n number of steps is given by x -step.
  1. How many square cubes were used if n is 5?
  2. How many square cubes were used if n is 40?
  3. Find the number of steps if a total of 144 square cubes are used.
3 m
Level 3
The diagram shows a sequence of patterns formed by square tiles. By considering the pattern information in the table, answer the questions.
  1. Find the number of tiles at the bottom layer in the 29th pattern
  2. Find the total number of tiles in Pattern 50.
3 m
Level 3
The diagram shows the pattern for the number of circles.
  1. How many circles will Pattern 4 contain?
  2. How many circles will Pattern 30 contain?
  3. Which pattern contains 421 circles?
3 m
Level 3
Study the number pattern carefully.
  1. What is the missing number in the 5th pattern?
  2. What is the missing number in the 32th pattern?
  3. If this number pattern goes on, which pattern number will give you 445?
4 m
Level 3
May added a certain number of white squares round a grey square and then a certain number of grey squares round the white squares and she continued adding more grey and white squares round the diagram in each pattern as shown.
  1. How many grey squares did she need if the most outer layer had 11 squares on each side?
  2. How many squares are there in the Figure 11?
4 m
Level 3
A pattern is made by putting shaded squares of unit length around a white square of similar unit length. He then continues to make patterns as shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3.
  1. Which figure uses 100 white squares?
  2. Find the number of shaded squares in Figure 30.
  3. Find the total number of squares in Figure 60.
4 m
Level 3
At Richard's soap factory, a special soap bar 'Johnny's Bricks' is made by daily adding 1 cm3 soap bars around the previous day's region of soap bars.
  1. Find the number of 1-cm3 soap bars added on Day 5.
  2. Find the total number of soap bars on Day 9.
  3. Find the total number of soap bars on Day 30.
4 m
Level 3
The diagram shows the first four of a sequence of figures.
Figure 1 is made up of just 1 square.
Figure 2 is made up of one 2 x 2 and four 1 x 1 squares, so it has a total of 1 + 4 = 5 squares.
Figure 3 contains one 3 x 3 and some 2 x 2 squares and nine 1 x 1 squares.
The sequence continues as shown in Figure 4 and so on.
  1. How many squares are there in Figure 7?
  2. How many total number of squares will be there in sequence 7?
4 m
Level 3
Consider the following sequence:
  1. Find the sum of 2 + 6 + 10 + 14 + ... + 30.
  2. A given line of the sequence is as follows: 2 + 6 + 10 + 14 + ... + a = 648 = 2 x b2. Find the value of b.
  3. Calculate the sum of Line 40 if the pattern for the sum of the lines is as follows:- Line 1: 8 Line 2: 8 + 10 Line 3: 8 + 10 + 12
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
Study the pattern.
  1. Find the total number of white and grey triangles in Figure 100.
  2. Find the percentage of grey triangles in Figure 100. (Give the answer in decimals.)
4 m
Level 3
The graph shows 3 figures formed by shaded and white triangles.
  1. Complete the column for Figure 5. Give your answers for (i) and (ii) in numbers. (Eg 1, 2)
  2. What is the total number of triangles in Figure 16?
  3. How many shaded triangles are there in Figure 40?
4 m
Level 3
Observe the following figures.
  1. Find the number of small triangles in Figure 4.
  2. Find the number of small triangles in Figure 50.
  3. Find the number of sticks in Figure 100.
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
Yasmin uses stars and circles to form figures that follow a pattern as shown.
  1. The table shows the number of stars and circles for the first four figures. Complete the table for Figure 5. List the answers in the following order using commas. (Eg i, ii, iii)
  2. A figure in the pattern has a total of 121 stars and circles. What is the figure number?
  3. Another figure in the pattern has 50 more stars than circles. What is the total number of stars and circles in the figure?
5 m
Level 3
A series of patterns of shaded and unshaded small triangles is shown.
  1. Which pattern has 141 shaded triangles?
  2. Find the number of unshaded triangles in Pattern 40.
  3. Find the total number of triangles in Pattern 90.
5 m