Video Transcript
Complete the following pattern:
five, what, what, eight.
Now it might be easy to look at
this question and think to yourself, “I can’t see any numbers there. It’s all just words.” But you know some of the words
in this question are numbers. Did you notice as we read out
the pattern, 5 and then 8 at the end? But we’ve got two missing
numbers in between. What numbers might come in
between five and eight?
What if we were counting in
ones? 1, 2, 3, 4, and now we get to
our pattern, 5, 6, 7. And then we get to our final
number 8. So what do you think? Should we just write the
numbers 6 and 7 as our missing numbers, 5, 6, 7, 8? The pattern doesn’t look quite
right, does it? These are the correct missing
numbers, but we need to represent them in a different way. As we’ve tried to answer the
question, we’ve represented the pattern using models, using digits, but the
numbers in the pattern itself are written in words. We’re going to have to write
the numbers 6 and 7 as words.
We write the number 6 S-I-X and
the number 7 S-E-V-E-N. The missing numbers in our
pattern are six and seven.
