9071 /www/nrich/html/content/id/9071/ 3 2012-09-06T16:09:59 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mdoxml version="1.0"><br></br> <em>In mathematics classrooms, we are sometimes guilty of being satisfied with a &#39;pattern-spotting&#39; approach to learning mathematics. As part of our feature on <a href="/8661">Patterns in Number Sequences</a>, the <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/">ATM</a> have kindly given us permission to share the following article written by Dave Hewitt, where he alerts us to &#39;the richness that can be gained by looking at a particular situation in some depth, rather than looking at it superficially in order to get a result for a table and then rushing on to the next example&#39;.</em><br></br> <br></br> <a class="pdflink" href="/content/id/9071/TrainSpottersParadise.pdf">Train Spotters&#39; Paradise, by Dave Hewitt</a><br></br></mdoxml> 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Train Spotters' Paradise Dave Hewitt suggests that there might be more to mathematics than looking at numerical results, finding patterns and generalising.