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1. Look at the top rectangle on the 1–100<br />
number grid. Mark in the corner numbers.<br />
2. Write each pair of numbers showing the<br />
opposite corners and add them.<br />
14 + 26 =<br />
24 + =<br />
Revealing Rectangles<br />
What do you notice about the answers?<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10<br />
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20<br />
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30<br />
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40<br />
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50<br />
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60<br />
3. Two other rectangles are marked on the grid.<br />
Try adding pairs of numbers in the opposite<br />
corners of each of these rectangles.<br />
(a) 42 + = ,<br />
44 + =<br />
(b) 78 + = , + =<br />
What do you notice about these answers?<br />
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70<br />
71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80<br />
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90<br />
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100<br />
4. Draw some rectangles of your own on a 1–100 grid and follow the same steps. What do<br />
you notice?<br />
5. Investigate what happens when you draw<br />
parallelograms on the 1–100 grid.<br />
6. What happens if you use a 0–99 number<br />
grid?<br />
R.I.C. Publications www.ricgroup.com.au<br />
60<br />
<strong>Number</strong> <strong>Grids</strong><br />
ISBN 978-1-86311-826-2
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