Billy is a Dog

Trainer.

He loves to train
dogs to do lots of
tricks!

His favourite
is to teach
them how to
shake hands.

The
Paw-shake
Problem

One day,
Billy
thought
to himself

The
Paw-shake
Problem
If I could teach
all the dogs to
shake hands with
each other

how many
paw-shakes
would there
be?

Lets start
with

2 dogs

How many
paw-shakes
will there be?

1?

paw-shake

How
about

3 dogs

How many
paw-shakes
will there be?

3?

paw-shakes

How did
Billy get the
answer of

paw-shakes

Rocky
2
That

Rocky
shook
Remembe
pawDexters
shaker
paw

shook
pawmeans
Theos
shakes
paw

Each dogsDexter
3
shakes shook
pawTheos
paws 2 shakes
paw
times!

Number
of Dogs

Lets start
making a
table

Lets
continue
the table

How many
paw-shakes
have we
counted so
far?
How many
paw-shakes
would there be
if there were

dogs?

Number
of
pawshakes

Have
a go!

Number of
Dogs

Number of
pawshakes

Work out
your answer
on a piece
of paper
with your
table
group.

How did your

group come up
with that answer?

What answer did

your group come
up with?

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

42
1

Use the dogs

below to show
your working out.

Group 5

Group 6

5 3

Lets look at the

problem
another way.

3
2

6
Theo cant
shake his
own paw.

 and
another
way.

3
2

Theo cant
shake his
own paw.

4 dogs

How many
paw-shakes
would there
be?

6?

paw-shakes

Can you see a

pattern forming?

0
1

Number of
Dogs

Number of
pawshakes

6
?

10
?

What if

5 dogs
shook paws?

3
4

1
0

Can you see a

pattern in this
table?

Work out
the pattern with
your group

Lets add the

number of dogs
with the number
of
paw-shakes!

Number of
Dogs

Number of
pawshakes

10

10

Number of
Dogs

Number of
pawshakes

6 dogs

shook
paws?!

10

Work out
The next part of
the table with
your group.

What if

Create a
number
sequence.