Triangular numbers are The first nine triangular

sequences of numbers that numbers are:1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

can be represented using 21, 28, 36, 45

equilateral triangles.
You can see that all these numbers go into triangles.

1
2 3
1
1 4 65
2 3
7 8 9 10
1 2 3 4 5 6
11 12 13 14 15
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

n (n+1)
The formula for triangular numbers is: ------------
2
This means n x (n+1)÷2.
For example, if we want to know what the third triangular number is, we do this:
3 x (3+1) = 12. 12 ÷2 = 6, so the third triangular number is 6.

Fun facts:
Triangular numbers never end in 2, 4, 7, or 9.
Triangular numbers are never cubed numbers
(except 1), or any powers other than squared.

Triangular Numbers
 Identify the 24th triangular number.
a) 56 b) 285 c) 301 d) 300 e) 196

( 4th Tn* + 15th Tn*) x ( 12th Tn* - 6th Tn*)

a) 4890 b) 6083 c) 7410 d) 8516 e) 5409

tn = triangular numbers

Every day Tom stacks his cans of soup into a

triangle. Tom eats the soup so that the
remaining cans fit into a triangle.
Day 20. Day 19 Day 18 Day 6

?
How many
cans did he
have on day 6?

Questions to Solve