Answer is 2801+ narrator = 2802 but students need to show the series and the use of the sum formula. Now the actual nursery rhyme does not say assume everyone is going to St. Eves. It just starts with I was going to St Ives” so the man with his 7 wives etc. was returning and hence only “As the narrator of the rhyme was going with perhaps others that are not mentioned. But the man with wives, kits and sacks and cats totals 2801. A similar but not a trick question is problem 7 of the Rhind Papyrus written about 1650 B.C. There were 7 houses each with 7 cats, each with 7 mice, each with 7 spelt, each with 7 hekat. How many are there in all? Sum is 19,607. Vocabulary Closed form expression Finite Finite geometric series Geometric series Infinite Infinite geometric series Mortgage Sequence Series Sierpinski Resources and Materials Activities 5.6.1 5.6.3 should be completed. If time permits do Activity 5.6.4. – Activity Sheet 5.6.1 Finite Geometric Series Activity Sheet 5.6.2 Sam’s Story Activity sheet 5.6.3 Rumors, Worms, and Viruses Activity sheet 5.6.4 Return to Sierpinski Graphers or equivalent technology
Answer is 2801+ narrator = 2802 but students need to show the series and the use of the sum formula. Now the actual nursery rhyme does not say assume everyone is going to St. Eves. It just starts with “As I was going to St Ives” so the man with his 7 wives etc. was returning and hence only the narrator of the rhyme was going with perhaps others that are not mentioned. But the man with wives, kits and sacks and cats totals 2801. A similar but not a trick question is problem 7 of the Rhind Papyrus written about 1650 B.C. There were 7 houses each with 7 cats, each with 7 mice, each with 7 spelt, each with 7 hekat. How many are there in all? Sum is 19,607. Vocabulary Closed form expression Finite Finite geometric series Geometric series Infinite Infinite geometric series Mortgage Sequence Series Sierpinski Resources and Materials Activities 5.6.1 – 5.6.3 should be completed. If time permits do Activity 5.6.4. Activity Sheet 5.6.1 Finite Geometric Series Activity Sheet 5.6.2 Sam’s Story Activity sheet 5.6.3 Rumors, Worms, and Viruses Activity sheet 5.6.4 Return to Sierpinski Graphers or equivalent technology
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