The City School

Academic Year 2020-21

Class 8
Subject: Mathematics
Topic: Number Patterns
Worksheet # 05-A

Student’s Name: _Abdul Rahman__________________ Date: 1

september 2020 ___________

Let’s Recall

A sequence is an ordered list of items, usually numbers. Each item

which makes up a sequence is called a “term”.

Sequences can have interesting patterns.

You can recall the concept of number sequence and its progression
through the given URL
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-third-grade-
math/arithmetic-patterns-and-problem-solving/imp-patterns-in-
arithmetic/v/practice-finding-patterns-in-numbers

Let’s Learn

By the end of this worksheet you’ll be able to recognize simple

number patterns and continue a given number sequence

Let’s Explore
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Refer page 161 of D-1 7 Edition to learn about the concept and
then attempt the following questions.
Q1.
a) Find the missing number: 30, 23, ?, 9

16
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b) Find the general term (n term )
Sir I couldn’t make the formula

Let’s Practice

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D-1 7 Edition
Guided Practice: Worked Example 2 and 3
Independent Practice: Practice Now 2 and 3, Exercise 7B (Q11 & Q12)

Q2. Write down the next four terms in each sequence. Also explain in
each case, how you figured out what the terms are.
a) 2, 4, 8, 14, 22, 32, 44
74 and 92 the difference between them is of even numbers like the difference
was of 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16

b) 2, 6, 18, 54, 162

486,1458 rule multiply by 3

c) 1, 7, 13, 19, 25
31` 37

Q3. a) Complete the table below by calculating the missing terms.

Position in sequence 1 2 3 4 5 7 10

Term 3 10 17 24 31 37 44
b) Write the rule to calculate the term from the position in the
sequence in words.
Add 7

Q4. Consider the stacks below.

a) How many cubes will there be in stack 5?

125

b) Complete the table.

Stack number 1 2 3 4 5 6 10

Number of cubes 1 8 27 64 125 216 1000

c) Write down the rule to calculate the number of cubes for any stack
number.

Cube
of the number

Let’s Have Fun

Extended Optional Practice:

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-third-grade-math/cc-3rd-
mult-div-topic/cc-3rd-grade-properties-patterns/e/patterns