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Mathematics 10

First Quarter
Module No. 1
Generating Patterns
Teacher: Jespril S. Oamil

HONOR CODE
AS A MEMBER OF THE NAMUAC ACADEMY EAGLES FAMILY, I WILL CONDUCT
MYSELF WITH INTEGRITY & SINCERITY AT ALL TIMES, DEMONSTRATE COMPASSION &
JUSTICE IN ALL MY ACTIONS, UPHOLD THE VALUE OF EXCELLENCE, AND ABIDE BY THE
EXPECTATIONS SET FORTH IN THE STUDENT HANDBOOK.
I MAKE THIS PLEDGE IN THE SPIRIT OF HONOR & TRUST.

INTEGRATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK IN

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE and ORGANIZATION & MANAGEMENT

GOAL To create a salary scheme that would best benefit both the employer and
the employees.
ROLE Human Resource Chairperson of a growing company
AUDIENCE Board of Directors of the Company
SITUATION Imagine that you were one of the people in the Human Resource group of
a fast growing company in the Philippines. All of you were asked by
management to create a salary scheme for a very important job that the
company would offer to the best I.T graduates this year. The management
gave the salary range good for 2 years, telling everyone in your group that
whoever could give a salary scheme that would best benefit both the
employer and the employees would be given incentives.
PRODUCT Multi- media Presentation.
STANDARDS Organization of Ideas
Accuracy
Content

21ST CENTURY SKILLS CORE VALUE TASK

CRITICAL THINKING Excellence How to present a salary scheme that connects to
geometric sequence.
CREATIVITY Excellence To prepare materials (Power Point presentation,
video presentation) in making a salary scheme.
COLLABORATION Justice The students will work together as members of the
team to prepare educational materials.
CROSS CULTURAL
UNDERSTANDING
COMPUTER/ICT Excellence Creation of multimedia presentations
CAREER/SELF RELIANCE
COMMUNICATION Integrity Students prepare visual presentation of chosen
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salary with the different data that were used

together with the formulas and all the computtions
done.
Students will show the video and synthesize
afterwards

SCORING RUBRIC FOR THE PERFORMANCE TASK

CRITERIA 4 3 2 1
Problem Solving .Shows a Shows an Provides a Provides no
and Reasoning thorough understanding partial solution solution or a
understanding of the problem related to the solution unrelated
of the and the problem to the problem
problem and mathematics of
connected the problem
mathematics
Representations Recognizes Notices and Indicates partial Makes no
and connections and uses describes or incorrect identification of
mathematical patterns patterns patterns
connections to
extend or
generalize
pattern
Communication Uses precise Communicates Provides a ‐ Shows little or
mathematical process and partial no communication
language to thinking in a communication of process or
clearly sequential, of process or thinking
communicate coherent way thinking
process and
thinking

EXPECTATION
S
After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. Generate and describe patterns.
2. Find the next few terms of a sequence.
3. List the terms in a sequence given the general term.
4. Find the general or nth term of a sequence.

PRE-TEST

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Read and understand each item and choose the letter of the correct answer.
Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
1. What is the next number in 0 4 8 12 ______
A. 16 B. 18 C. 20 D. 24
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2. What is the nth term of the sequence? 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, ___
A. 4n + 1 B. 4n – 1 C. 3n + 2 D. 3n + 4
3. What is the 7th number in 0, 6, 12, 18,..?
A. 24 B. 30 C. 36 D. 42
4. Find the next three terms in the sequence 2, 4, 6, 8, 10,…
A. 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 C. 20, 18, 16, 14, 12
B. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 D. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
5. What is the first four terms in the sequence given the nth term an = 4n + 2?
A. 5, 9, 13, 17 C. 7, 9, 11, 13
B. 6, 10, 14, 18 D. 8, 10, 12, 14

OVERVIEW

Many situations in the field of Science and Mathematics involve numbers arranged
in a definite order or sequence which are related to each other, such as minutes in
an hour, successive powers of 10, squares of integers, and others. In this module,
you will be dealing with patterns. To understand such, you have to perform the
activities and see to it that you analyze the examples given.
Good Luck!

LESSON PROPER

A SEQUENCE is a set of numbers written in succession. Each element of the

sequence is called term. The first element is called first term, followed by the second term,
third term and so on.

Example 1: The succession of numbers 3, 7, 11, 15, 19 form a sequence since every term
after the first is obtained by adding 4 to the number preceding it.
Example 2: Write the next three terms in the sequence.
a. 2, 7, 12, 17, …
b. 1, 1/2 , 1/3 , 1/4 , …
Solution: 1
The term after the first term is obtained by adding 5. Therefore, the next three terms are 22,
27, 32.
Solution 2.
Rewriting the sequence, you will have 1 1 , 1 2 , 1 3 , 1 4 . Notice that the numerators are all
1 and the denominators are consecutive numbers. Following the rule, you have the next
three terms 1/5 , 1/6 , 1/7 .

FINITE AND INFINITE SEQUENCE

A sequence can either be finite or infinite. It is said to be finite if it has a first term and
last term. If the sequence has a first term but no last term, then it is an infinite sequence.
Example 3: Tell whether the sequence is finite or infinite.
a. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16
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b. 3, 6, 9, 12, 15
c. 1, 4, 9, 16, …
d. 2, 3/2 , 4/3 , 5/4 , … , 99 98
e. 1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, …

Solution:
a. Finite. The first term is 1 and the last term is 16.
b. Finite. The first term is 3 and the last term is 15.
c. Infinite. The first term is 1, the ellipsis (three dots) imply that it is endless.
d. Finite. The first term is 1 and the last term is 99 98 .
e. Infinite. The first term is 1, there is no last term
Each term of a sequence is denoted by 𝑎𝑛 where 𝑛 is the term number. For instance,
𝑎1 for the first term, 𝑎2 for the second term, 𝑎3 for the third term and so on.

LISTING THE TERMS OF A SEQUENCE

A sequence can also be described as a function whose domain is the finite set {1, 2,
3, … , 𝑛} or the infinite set {1, 2, 3, … }. This means that for every value of 𝑛, there is only
one corresponding value for 𝑎n.
Example 4:
Write the first four terms of the sequence 𝑎n = 12 − 3𝑛. Solution: Substitute the
numbers 1 to 4 for 𝑛 one after the other.
𝑎1 = 12 − 3(1) = 12 − 3 = 9
𝑎2 = 12 − 3(2) = 12 − 6 = 6
𝑎3 = 12 − 3(3) = 12 − 9 = 3
𝑎4 = 12 − 3(4) = 12 − 12 = 0
Therefore, the first four terms of the sequence are 9, 6, 3, 0.

Example 5:
What is the seventh term of the sequence 𝑎n = 2n − 3?
Solution: Substitute 7 for 𝑛. 𝑎𝑛 = 2 𝑛 − 3
𝑎7 = 27 − 3
𝑎7 = 128 - 3
𝑎7= 125
The seventh term of the sequence 𝑎𝑛 = 2n − 3 is 125.

FINDING THE GENERAL TERM

Since you were able to find the terms of a sequence given the general or the nth
term, you can also do the opposite.

Example 6: Discover the equation of the sequence 3, 5, 7, 9, ... by looking at the

pattern. Solution: 𝑎1 = 3 = 2(1) + 1
𝑎2= 5 = 2(2) + 1
𝑎3= 7 = 2(3) + 1
𝑎4= 9 = 2(4) + 1
Therefore, the equation of the sequence is 𝑎n = 2𝑛 + 1.

WRAP- UP

Pattern – is a series or sequence that repeats.

Finite Sequence – a sequence with first term and last term.
Infinite Sequence – a sequence with first term but no last term.
Function – a relation in which each element of the domain is paired with exactly one element
of the range.
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Sequence – a function whose domain is the finite set {1,2,3, … , 𝑛} or the infinite set {1, 2, 3,
…}
Succession – in real numbers is an application of the set N (set of natural number excluding
zero) in the set R of the real numbers

VALUING

Patterns are sort of like numbers in that the quantity of “two” doesn’t specify what
there are two of, and a pattern doesn’t specify what objects, sounds, actions, etc. the
pattern is made of. In other words, a pattern described as ABAB can look like clap–
stomp–clap–stomp or red bead–blue bead–red bead–blue bead. Another way of putting
it is to say that these different manifestations of patterns (sounds or letters or clapping)
are equivalent to each other. (Learning to think about patterns in this way may require a
lot of experience working with patterns in many different manifestations.)

Pattern is considered an early building block in algebra. The ability to generalize

patterns contributes to children’s later understanding of algebraic equations. For
example, adding one more object to a group [N] will always result in N + 1 regardless of
whether it is a group of bears, dinosaurs, stairs, or pennies (see Pattern Paths to
Algebra). In the real world, this equation can apply to sets of anything, making the ability
to generalize with patterns very useful in understanding the utility (and mathematics) of
algebra.

POST-ASSESSMENT

A. Enrichment Activities
Activity 1
A. Find the next 3 numbers from a given pattern by multiplication or division.
1. -2, 4, -8, 16, ___, ____, ____
2. 4, 16, 64, 256, ___, ____, ____
3. 48, 24, 12, 6, 3, ___, ____, ____
B. Supply the missing numbers.
1. 15, 7, ___, -9, ___
2. 7, 11, ___, ___, 23

Activity 2:
A. Write the first five terms of the sequence with the given rule.
1. 𝑎𝑛 = 3𝑛
2. 𝑎𝑛 = 4𝑛 2

B. Post-Test
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
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Direction: Read each item carefully then choose the letter of your answer among the options.
Write only the letter on your answer sheet.
1. Supply what is missing to generate patterns 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, __
A. 36 B. 64 C. 81 D. 100
2. What is the next term of the sequence 5, 9, 13, 17, ____?
A. 20 B. 21 C. 22 D. 23
3. Consider the arithmetic sequence 2,5,8,11,14, . What is the nth term of the sequence?
A. 3 1 n− B. 3 1 n+ C. 2 3 n+ D. 2 1
4. Find the first five terms of the sequence given the nth term an = 3𝑛 – 1.
A. 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 C. 2, 5, 8, 11, 14
B. 1, 4, 7, 11,14 D. 4, 6, 8, 10, 14
5. What is the 10th number given the sequence 1, 3, 9, 27, 81,…?
A. 729 B. 2187 C. 6561 D. 19 683
th
6. Find the 10 term given 𝑎n = 2𝑛 + 3
A. 21 B. 22 C. 23 D. 24
7. What is the next three terms of 48, 24, 12, 6, 3, ___, ____, ____
A. 3/2 , 3/4 , 3/8 B. 3/8, 3/4, 3/2 C. 3/4,3/2 ,3/8 D. 3/2 ,3/8 ,3/4
8. What is the nth term 1, 4, 9, 16, …?
A. 𝑎n = 𝑛2 B. 𝑎n= −4𝑛 – 1 C. 𝑎n = 1/2n D. 𝑎n = 17 – 5
9. Supply the missing terms ___, 5x, 8x, ____, 14x.
A. 3x and 11x B. 2x and 12x C. x and 10x D. 4x and 12x
10. What is the 8th term given 𝑎𝑛 = 𝑛 2 − 9?
A. 51 B. 52 C.53 D. 54

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