Beehive patterns
This task is about continuing a spatial pattern and describing its rule.
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Jade was looking at beehives and noticed each hive was made up of regular hexagons.
They used some sticks to make a pattern of a long strip of hexagons.
Here is how the hexagons looked.
Jade was looking at beehives and noticed each hive was made up of regular hexagons.
They used some sticks to make a pattern of a long strip of hexagons.
Here is how the hexagons looked.
Jade needed 6 sticks to make 1 hexagon. How many sticks do they need to make
2 hexagons?
3 hexagons?
10 hexagons?
100 hexagons?
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b) Complete the rule below which relates the number of matches
(m)
and the number of hexagons
(n)
Jade made.
m
=
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