On Earth Day, class 7SP and 7L compete to see
which class can collect the most garbage.
Each student in Ms. Stephen-Patel's class pledges to
pick up 6 pieces of garbage.
- How many pieces of garbage will be picked up when the number of students is 5? 15? 25?
- What pattern do you see in the numbers of pieces of garbage?
- Write a rule to find how many pieces of garbage will be picked up, when you know the number of students.
- Find the number of pieces of garbage picked up by 35 students.
Relationships in Patterns
Mr. Lin's class pledges to pick up a total of 10 more pieces of garbage than Ms. Stephen-Patel's class.
Pattern rule: Start at 10. Add 10 each time.
This rule relates each term to the term that comes before it.
Term # : 1 2 3 4 5
Term: 10 20 30 ? ?
How does each term relate to the term number?