Summary
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
- Students will look for patterns and then predict how many seats there will be at step ten.
- Next, they predict how many seats they'll have at *100 desks!*
- I reveal the answer (402) and propose an extension involving non-rectangular desks.
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