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Formulating The Rule in Finding The NTH Term (DAY2)

The document discusses different strategies for formulating the rule to find the nth term of a sequence, including guessing and checking and working backwards. It provides examples of sequences and asks students to formulate the rule for each and find missing terms. The document also contains a word problem about mangoes harvested each year that increases by 2 kg each year, asking students to make a table and use it to determine the total harvested from 2012-2017.

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Formulating The Rule in Finding The NTH Term (DAY2)

The document discusses different strategies for formulating the rule to find the nth term of a sequence, including guessing and checking and working backwards. It provides examples of sequences and asks students to formulate the rule for each and find missing terms. The document also contains a word problem about mangoes harvested each year that increases by 2 kg each year, asking students to make a table and use it to determine the total harvested from 2012-2017.

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FORMULATING THE RULE IN FINDING

THE NTH TERM


USING DIFFERENT STRATEGIES
Week 4, Day 2
OBJECTIVES:
A. FORMULATE THE RULE IN FINDING THE NTH TERM OF A
SEQUENCE USING GUESSING AND CHECKING, AND
WORKING BACKWARDS
B. WRITE THE NEXT TERMS IN A GIVEN SEQUENCE.
C. SHOW PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE IN FORMULATING A
RULE.
1. Drill (Group Game)
Draw the next figure:

2. How do you look for a pattern in a sequence?


Let’s see how witty you are by guessing the next
letter in the sequence below
and describing the connections/rule of the
sequence?

a. S, M, T, W,____, ____, ____ Rule:


b. J, F, M, A, M, ____, ____, ____
Rule:
c. M, V, M, E, ___, ____, ____
Rule:
Every year, Mang Ramon’s kinalabaw mango
tree produces 2 more kilograms of mango than
the previous year. If 25 kilograms were harvested
in year 2012, how many kilos will it produce in
2017? What is the total number of kilograms of
mangoes the tree produced from 2012 to 2017?

What is asked?
What are the given facts?
What strategy can you use to solve the problem?
Construct a table showing the yearly harvest of mangoes

Year
Number of kilograms of mangoes

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017
Answer the following.

a. How did you perform the activity?


b. Did every member of the group participate?
c. How did you find the answer to the problem? Was it easy?
d. Did the table help you get the answer more easily?
e. How can you check if your answer is right?
f. What are the other ways of finding the answer to this kind of problem?
Using guess & check strategy/working backward strategy
formulate the rule in finding the nth term of the given sequence :

a. 2, 5, 8, 11____, ____, ____


Rule:_______________
b. 1/5, 3/5, 5/5, 7/5,____, ____, ____
Rule: _______________
c. 1/12, 4/12, 9/12, 16/12,____,____
Rule: _______________
d. 6, 10, 14, 18, ___, ___, ___
Rule: _______________
e. 3,5,7,9,___,___,___
Rule: _______________
 
Analyse each sequence in each and complete
the missing value in each table.

Nth tem

1 1

3 9

4
Nth term
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1 2 4 16 32 512
How do we find the nth term of a
sequence?

To formulate the nth term of a


sequence , we can also use the
following strategies: (a)Guessing
and checking ;
(b) working backward
Answer each question completely.

Justine saved ₱100.00 in January,


₱200.00 in February, ₱300.00 in
March and so on until December. In
which month did hesave ₱1000.00?
How much did Justine save for the
entire year?
 
Identify the sequence in Column B
that follows the rule in Column A.
A B
____1. 3n a. -2, -4, -6
____2. n3 b. ½, 1/3, ¼
____3. (n + 1) c. 2/3, ¾, 4/5
(n + 2) d. 2, 5, 8, 11
____4. 3n-1 e. 1, 8, 27
____5. __1__ f. 3, 6, 9, 12
n+1
 
Answer the following:

1. Complete the pattern: 8, 13, 21, ____, ____, 39,____, 52.


2. What are the missing terms in the sequence 11, ___, ___,44,____, 66?
3. What is the sum of the first 10 odd numbers?
 

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