Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 –1920) was an Indian mathematician. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, and infinite series including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable.
NUMBER PATTERNS
How long is it until the end of time?
Key questions
What are linear sequences?
How can we generalise a linear sequence?
What are geometric sequences?
What other types of sequence are there?
Can we problem solve with sequences?
5 lessons
Literacy
stories that set a frame or background
stories that accompany or intertwine
stories that introduce
stories that explain
stories that ask a question
stories that entertain
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
A Grain of Rice by Helena Clare Pitman
Gauss
Introduce...
jumping Jack - 1
sequences jigsaw - 4
famous sequences - 4
jumping along a line - 1, 2
missing numbers - 1, 5
shifting timestables - 1, 2
which timestable - 1, 2
term to term - 1, 2
finding rules - 2
stacks - 5
Develop...
donald and daffy - 1, 2
linear or non-linear - 1, 4
sequences search - 4
sequences tarsia - 1, 2
nth term tarsia - 1, 2
stick patterns - 1, 2
rooftops - 5
shortest routes - 5
graphing geometric - 3, 5
Extend...
alkanes - 5
molecule models - 5
sequences and venn - 1, 2
in two series venn - 1, 2
hexagon loops - 5
beach huts - 5
tower of Hanoi - 5