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NUMBER SEQUENCES is identifying and recognising number sequences involving addition.
What is a sequence?
1
What do you think about this pattern?
NOTE
When there is an increase from one number to the next the pattern will be discovered ,if you add or multiply something with the previous number to get the next one.
For example in the number
What is value of the fifth number?
Answer
50
What did we do to get the next numbers?
We added 10 the previous number to get the next one
How do we work out sequences of numbers?
- Look for a pattern between the given numbers
- Decide whether to use +, -, *, or /
- Use the pattern to solve the sequence
Write down the next two numbers in the series below
Answer
The next two numbers are
•2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 68
What did we do to get the fifth and the sixth numbers?
What did we do to get the fifth and the sixth numbers? We summed the number before by itself to get the next one
Alternatively
•We multiply the previous number by 2 to get the next number.
Here is a magic square
What did you notice?
The sum of the numbers across, down and diagonal is 15
Assignment
- What is the next number in the series below
- 20, 24, 33, 49___
- 15, 25, 35, 45, __
- 1, 4, 9, 16, ___
- 110, 120, 130 ,140, ____
- 25, 50, 75, 100, __
- 3, 5, 7, 9,___
- 2, 4, 8, 16, ___
Answers
- 20,24,33,49,74
- 15,25,35,45,55
- 1,4,9,16,25
- 110,120,130,140,150
- 25,50,75,100,125
- 3,5,7,9,11
- 2,4,8,16,32
