Sunday, November 6, 2016

In-class Math POW - due Fri. Nov. 11th

Patterning & Algebra


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1.  The first term of a pattern is 28 672. The pattern rule is “divide by 4 to get the next term.” What is the 5th term? Show your thinking.


2.  Which of these patterns uses the rule “multiply by 2 and add 1” to get the next term?

● 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, ...
● 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...
● 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, ...
● 1, 4, 10, 22, 46, ...


3.  A pattern is shown below.

64, 32, 16, 8, 4, ...
Which rule describes how to find the next term in the pattern?


4.  Darren starts with a triangle and creates a pattern.
     Each term in the pattern is a polygon with one more side than the term before it. How many sides        will Term 8 have?

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