Growing Patterns
Math: Middle Grades Math: Functions
6-8
45 Minutes
TI-Nspire™ CX series
TI-Nspire™ CX CAS/CX II CAS
TI-Nspire™ Apps for iPad®
3.6
Lessons
TNS
Growing Patterns
Activity Overview
This lesson involves using pattern growth to construct functions.
Objectives
- Students will use symbols to represent unknowns and variables.
- Students will look for patterns and represent generalizations.
- Students will represent relationships among quantities using visual models, tables, graphs, and words.
Vocabulary
- function
- growth rate
- constant rate
- linear function
About the Lesson
This lesson involves using pattern growth to construct functions.
As a result, students will:
- Explore growing tile patterns pictorially, graphically and in tabular form.
- Examine the relationship between the stage number and the number of tiles.
- Determine a rule for the number of tiles as a function of the stage number.
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Math: Middle Grades Math: Functions
6-8
45 Minutes
TI-Nspire™ CX series
TI-Nspire™ CX CAS/CX II CAS
TI-Nspire™ Apps for iPad®
3.6
Lessons
TNS
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