A Detailed Lesson Plan in

MATHEMATICS 10

Date:______________

I. Objectives:

 Determine whether a sequence is arithmetic

 Find a formula for an arithmetic sequence
 Find the nth term of an arithmetic sequence
 Find the sum of a finite arithmetic sequence
 Use an arithmetic sequence to solve an application problem.

II. Subject Matter:

 Topic: Arithmetic Series

 Value Infusion: To relate arithmetic sequence to real-life situations.

III. Procedure:

Show a picture of a pyramid of logs has 2 logs in the top row, 4 logs in the second row from the
top, 6 logs in the third row from the top, and so on, until there are 200 logs in the bottom row.

 Have the students come up with the total number of rows of logs.
 Have the students write and interpret the first 10 terms of the sequence of numbers generated
from the example
 Have the students identify the pattern in the sequence of numbers, i.e., come up with the
‘common difference’
 Have the students come up with the formula for the nth term of the sequence and use it to
find the number of logs in say the 76th row
 Have the students compute the number of logs in the first 12 rows
 Have the students come up with the total number of logs in the pyramid.

IV. Evaluation: