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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 predict the number of squares at step 5.
  2. I reveal the answer (it's 29) and then ask them to predict step 12.
  3. After confirming that step 12 has 64 squares, I ask students to predict *any* step! **Answers** – Step 47: 239 – Step 111: 559 – Step 998: 4994

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