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Heart pattern: 2, 5, 8, ...

Spade pattern: 2, 6, 10, ...
Diamond pattern: 15, 11, 7, ...
Club pattern: 7, 10, 13, ...
1. Use manipulatives to show the pattern of numbers. Describe how the numbers
in the pattern are related to one another.
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2. Compare your pattern to the pattern of each of your group members. Are there
any similarities? Are there any differences?
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3. How is the second number in the pattern related to the first number?
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4. How is the third number in the pattern related to the second number?
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5. Use your manipulatives to clearly show the relationship. Write a formula to
show each relationship.
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6. Compare your formula with the formulas of your group members. How are the
formulas the same? How are they
different? _______________________________________________________
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7. Find the fourth and fifth numbers in your pattern.
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8. How is the third number in the pattern related to the first number?
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9. How is the fourth number in the pattern related to the first number?
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10. Write a formula to show each relationship.
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11. Compare your formula with the formulas of your group members. How are the
formulas the same? How are they
different? _______________________________________________________
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12. Use this formula to find the 15th number in your pattern.
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the spreadsheet.

13. Use your graph paper to graph the numbers in your pattern. Compare graphs
with your group members. How are they the same how are they different?
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14. Do you recognize the pattern? _____________________________
15. Should you connect your dots? Why or why
not? ________________________________________________
16. What is the meaning of the y-intercept?
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17. What is the meaning of the slope?
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The group member with the heart pattern should put their graph on the transparency
paper.
What is the sum of the first two numbers in you pattern? ___________
18. What is the sum of the first three numbers in your pattern? ___________
19. What is the sum of the first four numbers in your pattern? ___________
20. What is the sum of the first five numbers in your pattern? ___________
21. Do these numbers form an arithmetic sequence? _____ How did you decide?
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22. Can you find a formula for the sums? You might want to look at
a hint showing Gauss' method for adding the first 100 integers. Draw a picture
illustrating adding the first 100 numbers in your pattern. You may just use the
first three and last three numbers as in the hint above.
23. How is your picture like or unlike the pictures of your group members?
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24. What geometry figure helps us to illustrate the trick for finding the sum?
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25. How do we use the geometry figure to find the sum?
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26. Find a formula using t1, n, and d for any Sn?
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27. Use the formula to find S7 and check your work by adding without the formula.
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Now consider a savings plan for yourself. You have never tried to save money before
so you are going to take it slowly. At the end of the first week you are going to put
$1.00 in the bank. Then at the end of the second week you are going to put $1.25 in
the bank. At the end of the third week you will put in $1.50.
27. What is the t1 for this problem? ______________
28. What is the d? ________________
29. How much money will you put in at the end of the 20th week?
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30. How much total money will you have saved at the end of the 20th week?
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31. What is the difference between the two previous questions?
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32. Will this saving scheme actually work? Why or why not?
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