GENERATING SEQUENCES
TASK 1 Term-to-term rules
Write the first five terms of these sequences, using the term-to-term rule and the first term.
Term-to-term rule: ‘add 0.5’ Term-to-term rule: ‘subtract 3.5’ Term-to-term rule: ‘add 1.1’
First term: 3 First term: 12 First term: −4
Term-to-term rule: ‘multiply 3 Term-to-term rule: ‘divide by 3’
Term-to-term rule ‘subtract ’
by 2’ 4
First term: 5
First term: 6 First term: 2
TASK 2 2 step term-to-term rules
Write the first five terms of these sequences, using the term-to-term rule.
Term-to-term rule: ‘multiply by 0.5 then add 6’ Term-to-term rule: ‘multiply by 6 then add 2
First term: 4 First term: 3
Term-to-term rule: ‘divide by 5 then subtract 10’ Term-to-term rule: ‘subtract 9 then multiply by 2’
First term: 25 First term: 5