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Chapter 1 Nature of Mathematics

This document contains a math worksheet with 6 activities covering topics of mathematics in nature, sequences and patterns, arithmetic sequences, geometric sequences, arithmetic series, geometric series, and arithmetic and geometric means. The activities involve drawing pictures from nature with mathematical connections, writing subsequent terms in sequences, finding specified terms, calculating sums of arithmetic and geometric series, and finding arithmetic and geometric means between given numbers.

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Chapter 1 Nature of Mathematics

This document contains a math worksheet with 6 activities covering topics of mathematics in nature, sequences and patterns, arithmetic sequences, geometric sequences, arithmetic series, geometric series, and arithmetic and geometric means. The activities involve drawing pictures from nature with mathematical connections, writing subsequent terms in sequences, finding specified terms, calculating sums of arithmetic and geometric series, and finding arithmetic and geometric means between given numbers.

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MATH 11 – MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD

NAME: _________________________________________________ COURSE: ____________________


DATE: ____________________________ SECTION: ___________________

Activity 1

Mathematics in Nature

Complete the table below by drawing pictures in nature that have a mathematics conn and explain its
connection in the second column. (20 points)

Pictures in Nature Mathematical Connections

Activity 2

Sequences and Patterns

I. Write the next three terms for the given sequences and patterns (3 points each)
1. 1,2,4,8,16, …
2. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34, …
3. 4,10,16,22,28, …
4. 3,4,7,8,11, …
5. 1,8,27,64,125,216,343,512,729, …

Activity 3

Arithmetic Sequence

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MATH 11 – MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD

NAME: _________________________________________________ COURSE: ____________________


DATE: ____________________________ SECTION: ___________________

I. Find the next three terms in each sequence. (3 points each)


1) 18, 11, 4, …
2) 23, 18, 13, 8, 3, …
II. Write down the stated term of the following arithmetic sequences. Show your solution. (5 points
each)
1) -7, -5, -3, … (14th )
2) 25, 32, 39, 46, … (16th)

III. Solve the following. (5 points each)


1) What is the thirty-second term of the arithmetic sequence 12, -7, -2, 3, … ?
2) What is the fiftieth term of the arithmetic sequence 3,7,11,15, … ?
3) The first term of an arithmetic sequence is 4 and the tenth term is 67. What is the common
difference?

Activity 3

Geometric Sequence

I. Find the next three terms in each sequence (3 points each)


1) 2,10,50,250, 1 250, …
2) -2, -4, -8, -16, …
3) -3, -15, -75, -375, …

II. Write down the stated term of the following geometric sequence. Show your solution. (5 points
each)
1) 512, 256, 128, … (6th )
2) 12, 18, 27, … (9th )

III. Solve the following. (5 points each)


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1) Find the next four terms of the geometric sequence with 𝑎1 = −6 and 𝑟 = − 3
2) Find r for the geometric progression whose first three terms are 2,4,8.
3) Given the first two terms in a geometric progression sa 2 and 4, what is the 10 th term?

Activity 4

Arithmetic Series

I. Find the sum of the following series. Show your solutions (5 points each)
1) 19, 13, … to 10 terms
2) 3, 8, ½ , …, to 20 terms
3) -9, -1, …, to 8 terms

II. Solve the following. Show your solutions (5 points each)


1) Find the sum of all the integers from 1 to 1 000.
2) Find the sum of all positive integers, from 5 to 1 555 inclusive, that are divisible by 5.

Activity 5
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MATH 11 – MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD

NAME: _________________________________________________ COURSE: ____________________


DATE: ____________________________ SECTION: ___________________

Geometric Series

I. Find the sum of the following series. Show your solution (5 points each)
1) 1,2,4,8,…, to 12 terms
2) 3,6,12,24, …, to 8 terms
3) 512, 256, 128, …, to 6 terms

II. Solve the following. Show your solution. (5 points each)


You have won a contest sponsored by a local radio station. If you are given the choice of the two
payment plans listed below, which plan will pay you more? How much more?
a. 10.00 on the first day, 20.00 on the second day, 30.00 on the third day, etc., for two months.
b. 10.00 on the first day, 20.00 on the second day, 40.00 on the third day, etc., for two weeks

Activity 6

Arithmetic Mean and Geometric Mean

I. Solve the following: (5 points each)


1) Insert two arithmetic means between 20 and 68
2) Insert three arithmetic means between 7 and 15.
3) Find 5 arithmetic means between 7 and 19
4) Calculate the Geometric Mean of 3 and 27
5) What is the geometric mean of 5 and 45?

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