Guest55?

[MCLC]

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?

[Guest55]

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 ...

[yoyo123]

I love patterns!
My maths club and I spend ages exploring them!

[MCLC]

Maths club sounds great! Not many of those in our area.

[Guest55]

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]

[MCLC]

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.

[yoyo123]

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.

[MCLC]

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.