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01 Magic Letters

The document discusses a Year 7 project focused on creating Magic Vs using five consecutive numbers, where each arm of the V has the same total. It challenges students to find all possible Magic Vs with different sets of consecutive numbers and to explore the concept further by extending the arms and investigating other Magic Letters. The project encourages the development of efficient strategies for identifying Magic Vs and understanding their properties in relation to arm totals.

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01 Magic Letters

The document discusses a Year 7 project focused on creating Magic Vs using five consecutive numbers, where each arm of the V has the same total. It challenges students to find all possible Magic Vs with different sets of consecutive numbers and to explore the concept further by extending the arms and investigating other Magic Letters. The project encourages the development of efficient strategies for identifying Magic Vs and understanding their properties in relation to arm totals.

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Magic Letters

Year 7 Project

Charlie has made a Magic V with five consecutive numbers:

It is a Magic V because each 'arm' has the same total.

Alison drew this magic V:

Charlie said "That's really just the same Magic V as mine!"

What do you think Charlie meant?


There are six more Magic Vs that are the same as Charlie's - can you find them all?

Can you find all the possible Magic Vs that use the numbers 1 to 5 and are
different from Charlie's?

How can you be sure you have found them all?

What happens if you use the numbers from 2 to 6? Or from 3 to 7? Or 4 to 8…?

You have been given a spreadsheet called “Investigating Magic Letters” to help you
investigate Magic Vs made from five consecutive numbers.

Can you describe an efficient strategy to find all Magic Vs for any given set of
numbers?
Can you use your strategy to find all the possible Magic Vs that use the
numbers 987,988,989,990,991?

Can you find a Magic V where each arm has a total of 60? Or 1000?
Can you find more than one?
Can you find a Magic V for any arm total?

Extension

What would happen if you extended the arms of the Magic V to 4 circles each, so now
there are 7 numbers in total?

Charlie and Alison drew some more letters, to see if they could make them magic - that is,
using consecutive numbers to make equal arm totals.

Magic L? Magic N? Magic W?

Investigate some of these Magic Letters in the same way that you explored Magic Vs using
the other tabs on the “Investigating Magic Letters” spreadsheet.

What general conclusions can you reach?

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