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Showing posts with label geometric. Show all posts

Friday, September 9, 2011

Geometric Sequences Reductions

Here is an activity I created to introduce geometric sequences. 

1) Watch the movie below:



2) Determine the dimensions of the last image if the original image was 210 × 297 mm.


**I had a copy of the original and final image and had students measure the original on their own, and then check their answer by measuring the final image.**

3) Extenstions: If we combined all the images, determine the total area.

If I extended this sequence to infinite, what would be the limit of the sum of the sequence?