SL 5.2 Arithmetic sequences and series
Content
Arithmetic sequences and series
Understandings:
- Using and writing Sequence
- Arithmetic Sequence
- Term of the arithmetic sequence
- Sum of n Terms
- Sigma Notation
- Application of AP
- Approximation Using arithmetic sequence
Guidance, clarification and syllabus links
- Spreadsheets, GDCs and graphing software may be used to generate and display sequences in several ways.
- If technology is used in examinations, students will be expected to identify the first term and the common difference.
- Application includes simple interest over a number of years.
- approximate common differences.