Unit 1 sequence review

Students self corrected the practice test and began work on the review


Review:

Review solutions:


Practice test student solutions:

Penny Pyramid

Learning target: I can add the terms of a sequences and describe it using partial sums

This lesson was adapted from here:
http://threeacts.mrmeyer.com/pyramidofpennies/act1/actone.mov

Calculating Loan Repayments

Learning target: students can explain the relationship between paying debt off quickly and playing it slowly

Finding the explicit formula

Learning target: I can find a quicker way to calculate specific terms in a sequence.

students will use their problem solving spreadsheet to develop a method for finding an individual terms without calculating all of the previous terms before it.

Task:

Copy of problem solving flowchart:
http://www.lucidchart.com/invitations/accept/52388859-5358-4731-be0b-30ff0a00cdb0
Copy of the worksheet:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/05yj1s44w3a5tnt/Discovery%20explicit%20equations.docx

Friday 9/6 Recursive toothpics

learning target: I can design a recursive pattern

More examples: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jfpxgqpiceadajt/toothpick%20recursion.pdf