Math Help : How to Solve a Math Pattern

In order to solve a math pattern, a few numbers of the pattern need to be provided first. Learn about arithmetic and geometric sequences with help from a math teacher in this free video on math lessons.

Expert: Jimmy Chang
Bio: Jimmy Chang has been a math teacher at St. Pete College for nearly a decade. He has a master's degree in math, and his specialties include calculus, algebra, liberal arts, math and trigonometry.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

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[bortkiew]

It's too bad that children are asked these types of questions. Technically, any continuation of these sequences can be part of some pattern, yet children are taught to think in a very narrow-minded way about these problems, that only a very small number of continuations are actually "patterns", and this just add to the confusion experienced by the young mathematician. These problems SHOULD cause confusion, yet this bit of logic is hammered out of most young people.

[adamrv1]

there's a name for that, it's called the Fibonacci sequence

[MaraimH]

How do you solve questions in which they ask you "what will be the 25th term in this number sequence?"

Let's say the sequence is 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,....

[lhkjk]

no i think youre slow

[mdanx3]

polish

[karamalhasan]

really slow vid