{"id":343,"date":"2012-04-22T20:40:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T00:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/wangweidong\/?p=343"},"modified":"2012-04-22T20:41:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T00:41:02","slug":"math-7a-lesson-9-4222012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/wangweidong\/2012\/04\/22\/math-7a-lesson-9-4222012\/","title":{"rendered":"Math 7A, Lesson 9, 4\/22\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we started the 2nd half of the Spring semester where we will go over new material that is not in the &#8220;Algebra I&#8221; text book. The material can be found under:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wangweidong\/SequenceSeries_Part1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wangweidong\/SequenceSeries_Part1.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wangweidong\/SequenceSeries_Part1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wangweidong\/SequenceSeries_Part2.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wangweidong\/SequenceSeries_Part1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wangweidong\/SequenceSeries_Part3.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">We talked about arithmetic sequence where any two consecutive numbers in the sequence have the common difference. For an arithmetic sequence with the first term as a and the common difference as d, its nth term is:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 an = a + (n-1)d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">As I was telling the students, it takes two parameters, the first term and the common difference, to uniquely identify an arithmetic sequence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">We did some in-class exercise in determining such parameters.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">For homework, click the link below:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wangweidong\/HomeworkArithmeticSequence.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wangweidong\/HomeworkArithmeticSequence.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we started the 2nd half of the Spring semester where we will go over new material that is not in the &#8220;Algebra I&#8221; text book. The material can be found under: http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wangweidong\/SequenceSeries_Part1.pdf http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wangweidong\/SequenceSeries_Part2.pdf http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wangweidong\/SequenceSeries_Part3.pdf We talked about arithmetic sequence where any two consecutive numbers in the sequence have the common difference. For an arithmetic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4,10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/wangweidong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/wangweidong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/wangweidong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/wangweidong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/wangweidong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/wangweidong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/wangweidong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/wangweidong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/wangweidong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/wangweidong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}