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DD did the following question:

Can you find a four digit number which is reversed when multiplied by 9? ie ABCD x9 = DCBA. She worked it out to be 9801. She asked me if there was anyway to get to the middle numbers in a quicker fashion?
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Again its practice and being familiar with the properties of the 9 times table.

1 x 9 = 09
2 x 9 = 18
3 x 9 = 27

Look at the pattern in the tens and units digits ...
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I love patterns!
My maths club and I spend ages exploring them!
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Maths club sounds great! Not many of those in our area.
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Maybe something to suggest at school? NRICH has plenty of material for a club. Also the Primary Maths challenge has some good [free] materials.

https://nrich.maths.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.primarymathschallenge.org.uk/downloads" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; [November papers are the first round]
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Thanks Guest55. School do a maths club which DD was invited too but they tend to be for Years 4/5 as they are too busy with the Sats in Year 6.
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We have maths club for children who just need a bit of a boost.We play games, do maths crosswords and solve riddles, use the iPads to play logic games and generally enjoy ourselves, while (sneakily) learning to love the subject.
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Sounds fun yoyo123. Would have been just the tonic for me at school. Might be better at Maths if I'd had that kind of support in school.
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