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Growing Patterns

Subject Area
Math: Middle Grades Math: Functions
Level
6-8
Activity Time
45 Minutes
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TI-Nspire™ CX series
TI-Nspire™ CX CAS/CX II CAS
TI-Nspire™ Apps for iPad®
TI-Nspire Version
3.6
Resource Types
Lessons
Format
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.

Subject Area
Math: Middle Grades Math: Functions
Level
6-8
Activity Time
45 Minutes
TI Calculator
TI-Nspire™ CX series
TI-Nspire™ CX CAS/CX II CAS
TI-Nspire™ Apps for iPad®
TI-Nspire Version
3.6
Resource Types
Lessons
Format
TNS
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