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Layog & Boloron
Layog & Boloron
ARITHMETIC SEQUENCE
Learning Objectives
• find the nth term or the general term of a sequence for which some initial terms are given.
Warm-Up
Find the next three terms of each sequence and give the difference.
1. 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
However, regardless of the truth of this story, Gauss was not the first to discover this formula,
and some find it likely that its origin goes back to the Pythagoreans in the 5th century BC.
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician who contributed in
many fields of mathematics and science and is touted as one of history's most influential
mathematicians. Many have referred to him as the princeps mathematicorum, or the “prince of
mathematics.”
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss is the father of Arithmetic Progression. He found it when he was
in primary school and his teacher asked to sum the integers from 1 to 100.
Each number in the sequence is called a term (or sometimes "element" or "member")
and in general
Where:
Exercises:
Stacking cups, chairs, bowls etc. (Stacking anything works, but the situations is different when
one thing fits inside the other.) The idea is comparing the number of objects to the height of
the object.
Seating around tables. Think about a restaurant. A square table fits 4 people. When two square
tables are put together, now 6 people are seated. Put 3 square tables together and now 8
people are seated. I really love this example. You can use a rectangular table as well and start
off with 6 seats.
Filling something is another good example. The container can be empty or already have stuff in
it. An example could be a sink being filled or a pool being filled. (Draining should also be
considered!) The rate at which the object is being filled versus time would be the variables.
QUIZ
A.
1. He is one of the world's famous mathematician who is credited with discovering the
Arithmetic Sequence?
B.
Determine which of the following sequences are arithmetic. If they are arithmetic, give the
value of 'd'.
C.