Circus towers: Square stacks

Work out how many acrobats are needed to form square-shaped human towers. How many in the base? How many acrobats altogether?

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Audience	Student
Purpose	Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Interactive
Keywords	games
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Number, Algebra
Topics	Multiplication and division, Patterns and algebra
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M3A03 Recall and demonstrate proficiency with multiplication facts for 3, 4, 5 and 10; extend and apply facts to develop the related division facts AC9M4A02 Recall and demonstrate proficiency with multiplication facts up to 10 x 10 and related division facts; extend and apply facts to develop efficient mental strategies for computation with larger numbers without a calculator AC9M5N02 Express natural numbers as products of their factors, recognise multiples and determine if one number is divisible by another AC9M6N02 Identify and describe the properties of prime, composite and square numbers and use these properties to solve problems and simplify calculations
Numeracy progression	Multiplicative strategies (P5, P6, P9) Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P4)
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