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What Numbers Can We Make?
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level 
Begin by exploring what happens when you add two, three, four... numbers chosen from a set of bags containing $2$s, $4$s, $6$s and $8$s. Can you explain your findings?
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Summing Consecutive Numbers
15 = 7 + 8 and 10 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers?