Read the comments in your book and answer any questions. Then complete the exercise below (you only need to complete the one highlight in your book).
Exercise 1
Copy the following sequences and state the expression:
a) 1, 3, 5, 7, 9...
b) 1, 4, 7, 10...
c) 2, 7, 12, 17...
d) 4, 14, 24...
e) 3, 4, 5, 6...
f) -2, -4, -6....
Exercise 2
Complete a table to find the first 5 terms of the sequences below:
a) 2n
b) 4n
c) 10n
d) 2n + 1
e) 4n - 3
Lesson
Title: nth term of a sequence
Learning Objectives
Level 5
To be able to explain the rules that describe any linear sequence.
Can you compare a linear sequence to a times table?
Level 6
To be able to demonstrate how to generate a sequence using a nth term formula and match a formula to any linear sequence.
Do you know the nth term formula of the times tables?
Level 6
Learning Objective for next lesson:
Level 5
To be able to explain the rules that describe any linear sequence.
Can you compare a linear sequence to a times table?
Level 6
To be able to demonstrate how to generate a sequence using a nth term formula and match a formula to any linear sequence.
Do you know the nth term formula of the times tables?
Flipped
(Note: this is an American video and they use a dot to represent multiply)
Now explain what you have learnt from this video using Showbie (add a voice tag to the "nthTerm Video - what did we learn?" assignment).
