Visual patterns

We looked at several patterns today.

We represented what the next terms would be

It’s interesting all the different strategies we have for finding the 10th term.  Some people saw this one as an x thats getting bigger by 4 each time.  Others noticed that there is one block past the middle for the first term, and two blocks past the middle for the second term, so we could draw the tenth term as 10 blocks out from the middle in 4 directions.

Working backwards to find the zero term was something new for us.

We are looking at weather the growth is linear or non linear for these patterns.