NUMBERS AND

PATTERNS
MODULE 2
 Objectives:
 Examine the nature and relationship of
numbers in a sequence
 Determine the nth term of a number sequence
 Generate a pattern to form a number
sequence
 Sequence and Series
 Sequence – list of numbers which
form a pattern
 Series – sum of all the terms in a
sequence when all terms in the
sequence has a definite relationship
 Finite and Infinite Sequence
 finite sequence has a definite number
of terms
 infinite sequence has an uncountable
number of terms
 Examples
Describe the pattern of each sequence.

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 Activity
Find the next three terms of each sequence.
 Common Types of Sequence

 Arithmetic Sequence
 Geometric Sequence
 Harmonic Sequence
 Arithmetic Sequence
-sequence of numbers where the
difference between the two
succeeding terms is constant
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 Geometric Sequence
-sequence of numbers where each
term is found by multiplying the
previous term by a constant
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 Harmonic Sequence
-sequence of numbers whose
reciprocal forms an arithmetic
sequence
Example

If we get the reciprocal of term, we will get and these

numbers form an arithmetic sequence whose common
difference is .
Finding the nth term of:
Arithmetic Sequence:

Geometric Sequence

Harmonic Sequence
 Recitation

Find the indicated term of each sequence that

follow.
Let’s solve each problem.