How Many Will There Be? Desks

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Summary

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

  1. Students will look for patterns and then predict how many seats there will be at step ten.
  2. Next, they predict how many seats they'll have at *100 desks!*
  3. I reveal the answer (402) and propose an extension involving non-rectangular desks.

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