Limits of sequences

There are 18 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Limits of sequences
A Swiss sum
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A Swiss sum

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Can you use the given image to say something about the sum of an infinite series?
Summing geometric progressions
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Summing geometric progressions

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Watch the video to see how to sum the sequence. Can you adapt the method to sum other sequences?
Diminishing Returns
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Diminishing Returns

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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How much of the square is coloured blue? How will the pattern continue?
Litov's Mean Value Theorem
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Litov's Mean Value Theorem

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Start with two numbers and generate a sequence where the next number is the mean of the last two numbers...
Squareness
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Squareness

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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The family of graphs of x^n + y^n =1 (for even n) includes the circle. Why do the graphs look more and more square as n increases?
Slide
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Slide

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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This function involves absolute values. To find the slope on the slide use different equations to define the function in different parts of its domain.
Light Blue - Dark Blue
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Light Blue - Dark Blue

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Investigate the successive areas of light blue in these diagrams.
Ruler
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Ruler

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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The interval 0 - 1 is marked into halves, quarters, eighths ... etc. Vertical lines are drawn at these points, heights depending on positions. What happens as this process goes on indefinitely?
Small Steps
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Small Steps

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Two problems about infinite processes where smaller and smaller steps are taken and you have to discover what happens in the limit.