Number Pyramid 🧱

Free interactive math game: Number Pyramid 🧱 — Fill the missing brick. Part of the Addition & Subtraction category on MathKite.

Example problems

Taken from the generator that powers this exercise. A fresh set appears every time the page is opened, and the printable worksheet holds ten of them.

  1. Each brick is the sum of the two bricks below it. What is the missing number?

About this exercise

Filling a pyramid where each brick is the sum of the two beneath it.

How to solve it

Work upwards where both lower bricks are known, and downwards by subtracting when the brick above and one neighbor are known.

Worked example

If a brick holds 10 and the one below it on the left holds 4, the missing brick on the right holds 10 - 4 = 6.

Common mistake

Only ever adding. Half the gaps in a pyramid are solved by subtracting from the brick above.