1.2.1  Recognizing Patterns and Sequences

• Practice Problems:
• Exploding Dots (click on an island and complete the stations)
• websites on recognizing patterns:
• http://www.iqtestexperts.com/visual-sample.php
• http://www.iqtestexperts.com/pattern-recognition-sample.php
• Worksheet #1
• Worksheet #2
• Use of Fibonacci Sequence
• Teacher Resources:
• http://www.visualpatterns.org

• Explanation:
• Notes | Annotated
• Khan article: Intro to arithmetic sequences
• Khan video: Extending arithmetic sequences
• Khan video: Extending geometric sequences
• Game 2048
• Practice Problems:
• Khan exercise: Extend arithmetic sequences
• Khan exercise: Extend geometric sequences
• Khan exercise: Extend geometric sequences: negatives & fractions (honors only)
• Worksheet #1
• Worksheet #2

• Explanation:
• Notes | Annotated
• Additional Honors Notes | Annotated
• Khan video: Using arithmetic sequences formulas (the first example is explicit and the second is recursive)
• Khan article: Intro to arithmetic sequence formulas
• Khan video: Worked example: using recursive formula for arithmetic sequence
• Khan article: Recursive formulas for arithmetic sequences
• Khan article: Explicit formulas for arithmetic sequences
• Khan video: Arithmetic sequence problem
• Khan article: Converting recursive & explicit forms of arithmetic sequences (honors)
• Khan article: Arithmetic sequences review
• Practice problems:
• Khan exercise: Recursive formulas for arithmetic sequences 
• Khan exercise: Use arithmetic sequence formulas 
• Khan exercise: Converting recursive & explicit forms of arithmetic sequences (honors)
• Worksheet #1 
• Worksheet #2
  
• Honors WS#1
• Honors WS#2

• Explanation:
• Notes | Annotated
• Khan video: Intro to geometric sequences
• Khan video: Using recursive formulas of geometric sequences
• Khan video: Using explicit formulas of geometric sequences
• Khan video: Explicit & recursive formulas for geometric sequences
• Khan article: Geometric sequences review
• Practice Problems:
• Khan exercise: Recursive formulas for geometric sequences
• Khan exercise: Use geometric sequence formulas
• Khan exercise: Explicit formulas for geometric sequences (only if converting to f(x)=a*b^x is taught)
• Khan exercise: Converting recursive & explicit forms of geometric sequences (only if converting to f(x)=a*b^x is taught)
• Worksheet #1
• Worksheet #2

• Explanation:
• Notes | Annotated
• Khan video: Evaluate sequences in recursive form (the best example is at 6:59 since the other examples have already been taught)
• Practice Problems:
• Khan exercise: Evaluate sequences in recursive form
• Worksheet #1
• Worksheet #2

• Worksheet #1