Progressions Introduction to progression activity2

Objectives

• To identify patterns of numbers
• To explore different types of number patterns
• To identify and generalize number sequences

Estimated Time

One period-45 minutes

Prerequisites/Instructions, prior preparations, if any

Students should be familiar with number sequences and identifying different types of sequences.

Materials/ Resources needed

Spreadsheets containing different types of patterns.

Process (How to do the activity)

• Show the different sequences of numbers in the spreadsheet and ask them:

• Compare the yellow and blue columns. What do you observe?
• Write the general form for the sequence in yellow
• Compare the blue and green columns. What do you observe?
• Is there any difference between the green and the purple column?
• Can you relate the purple series to the pattern you saw before?
• Can you state the rule for the purple row?
• Ask students to observe the series and generalize.

Evaluation at the end of the activity

1. Generalizing any given number sequence.