Geometric sequences

There are 30 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Geometric sequences
The Amazing Splitting Plant
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Favourite

The amazing splitting plant

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you work out how many flowers there will be on the Amazing Splitting Plant after it has been growing for six weeks?

Pocket money
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Favourite

Pocket money

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Which of these pocket money systems would you rather have?
Vanishing point
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Vanishing point

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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How can visual patterns be used to prove sums of series?
Production Equation
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Production equation

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Each week a company produces X units and sells p per cent of its stock. How should the company plan its warehouse space?
Mobile Numbers
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Mobile numbers

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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In this investigation, you are challenged to make mobile phone numbers which are easy to remember. What happens if you make a sequence adding 2 each time?
Binary Squares
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Binary squares

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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If a number N is expressed in binary by using only 'ones,' what can you say about its square (in binary)?
Geometric Parabola
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Geometric parabola

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Explore what happens when you draw graphs of quadratic equations with coefficients based on a geometric sequence.
Clickety Click
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Clickety click

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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What is the sum of: 6 + 66 + 666 + 6666 ............+ 666666666...6 where there are n sixes in the last term?
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Transformations tables

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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These grids are filled according to some rules - can you complete them?