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101 Questions

Domino Skyscraper

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Can a domino knock over a skyscraper? An inquiry-based lesson asks learners to calculate the size of domino needed to topple the Empire State Building. Using specific criteria and a geometric model, they find a solution.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Number Patterns

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this sequencing worksheet, students examine a pattern made of circles and squares. They draw the next pattern in the sequence. They tell how many circles will be in the fifth pattern, and how many squares will be in the seventh...
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Activity
Noyce Foundation

Tri-Triangles

For Students K - 12th Standards
Develop an understanding of algebraic sequences through an exploration of patterns. Five leveled problems target grade levels from elementary through high school. Each problem asks young mathematicians to recognize a geometric pattern....
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Finding the nth Term Given the Common Ratio and the First Term: Dominoes

For Students 11th - Higher Ed Standards
Topple misunderstandings of geometric sequences. Using a context of creating ever-increasing sizes of dominoes, pupils develop a geometric sequence. The scenario provides the size of the first domino and the common ratio between...
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Worksheet
Lane Community College

Review Sheets: College Algebra

For Students 9th - 12th
A jam-packed worksheet has all the topics you would teach in an Algebra II class with a variety of question styles. Starting with function notation and ending with geometric sequences, there really is something for everyone. Each topic...
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Assessment
Mathematics Assessment Project

Functions

For Students 8th - 9th Standards
Studying function means more than simply learning a formula. Learners must use functions to think through four problems and find solutions. Each task utilizes a different concept from a study of functions. Class members might use a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Patterns, Relations, and Functions: Geometric Shapes

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars explore patterns involving objects or figures and geometric shapes. They identify the missing shapes in patterns and discuss what would come next in the pattern, analyze patterns using different objects, and complete a...
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Activity
Curated OER

Triangle Series

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your algebra learners emphasize the"geometric" in geometric series as they use a common ratio between algebraic terms and find that it corresponds to a repeated similarity transformation. 
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Curated OER

Sequences and Series

For Students 9th - 11th
In this sequences and series worksheet, students find the sum of a given geometric series. They use sigma notation to express a geometric series. This one-page worksheet contains 12 problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sequences and Series

For Students 10th
In this sequences and series worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 13 different problems that include infinite geometric series. First, they find the sum of each infinite geometric series. Then, students find the first three terms...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Finding Sums and Terms for Geometric and Algebraic Sequences

For Students 11th - 12th
In this sequences activity, learners solve for the sum of ten sequences.  Students solve for a specified term of the geometric or arithmetic sequence in fourteen other problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geometric and Arithmetic Sequences

For Students 11th - 12th
In this Algebra II/Pre-calculus worksheet, students solve advanced problems based on geometric and arithmetic sequences, including the use of sigma notation. The five page worksheet contains forty-five problems.  Answers are not included.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduction to Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine the concept of sequences. Students create a sequence using varied starting numbers, multipliers, and add on values. Students practice determining the starting values to use in order to produce a desired sequence.
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Boards III

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Learn to visualize mathematical patterns as a folded pattern. Beginning with a visual display, the task encourages pupils to view sequences as a folded table. The pattern of the table then becomes a formula in a spreadsheet that...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Boards IV

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Build a connection between algebraic sequences and spreadsheets. Learners examine a specific folding pattern and convert the pattern into a spreadsheet. The goal of the spreadsheet is to produce a sequence of a specific pattern modeled...
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Lesson Plan
West Contra Costa Unified School District

Search and Rescue Activity

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Get your classes moving and practicing sequences at the same time! Learners move about the room solving problems and finding their solutions. Problems include both recursive and explicit formulas and both geometric and arithmetic sequences.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geometric Series 2.3

For Students 9th - 11th
Students will determine if a series of numbers are geometric, arithmetic, or neither and determine the common ratio if appropriate. In this geometric units lesson, students given a geometric series, determine the general term, and the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sequence Investigation

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders investigate arithmetic sequences.  In this Algebra II lesson, 11th graders create an arithmetic sequence and explore the effect of each variable in the formula of the nth term of an arithmetic sequence.  Students graph...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploration Sequence of Bounces

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
New skills are developed as students use graphing calculators and ranger technology to capture and graph the sequence of bounces a ball makes when dropped. After recording the height of four or more bounces, they use the collected data...
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Flipped Math

Recursive Formulas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write formulas that depend upon previous terms. Individuals watch a video that explains how to create a recursive formula based on a sequence of numbers. Learners find out how to determine whether a sequence is geometric or arithmetic...
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Recursion

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Perform the operation ... and then do it again. Scholars investigate recursive formulas by creating and graphing them. Using the interactive, pupils set the variable, determine the initial value, and type in a recursive formula.The...
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Curated OER

Geometric Sequences and Series

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students solve sequences using the geometric mean for sequences and series. They have to find the next number in the pattern using the formula for geometric means. There are 23 problems to be solved.
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Curated OER

Arithmetic or Geometric Series

For Students 11th
In this Algebra II/Trigonometry worksheet, 11th graders evaluate arithmetic and geometric series.  The two page worksheet contains ten multiple-choice problems.  Answers provided. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Infinite Geometric Series

For Students 10th - 12th
In this geometric series worksheet, students examine a given geometric series to determine if the series converges or divergeas.  They evaluate and determine the common ratio of a geometric series.  This four-page worksheet contains 28...

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