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Staircase Towers T OWER 1T OWER 2 T OWER 3 T OWER 4 Write down what the pattern is, using complete sentences. How many cubes will there be in the 10 th tower? How many cubes will there be in the n th tower? Explain how you know your formula works (in complete sentences). On a clean sheet of printer paper show the relation between the tower number and the number of cubes, in each of the 5 representations: 1.Pictorially 2.Verbally 3.Table 4.Formula 5.Graphically
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Growing Dots At the beginning At one minute At two minutes
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Growing Dots At the beginning At one minute At two minutes New each time
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Growing Dots At the beginning At one minute At two minutes New each time Constant center dot
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Growing Dots The dot started with one single dot. Every time the dot got surrounded by 4 and each time they stacked to make an x. At the beginning At one minute At two minutes New each time Constant center dot
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Growing Dots The pattern started with one single dot. Every time the dot got surrounded by 4 and each time they stacked to make an x. At the beginning At one minute At two minutes New each time Constant center dot
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Growing Dots The pattern started with one single dot. Every time the dot got surrounded by 4 more dots and each time they stacked to make an x. At the beginning At one minute At two minutes New each time Constant center dot
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Growing Dots Minutes Total Dots Growing Dots-total dots at a given minute The pattern started with one single dot. Every time the dot got surrounded by 4 more dots and each time they stacked to make an x. y=total dots t=minutes How many dots that get added each time The center dot that is always there MinDots 01 15 29 313 +4 +1 At the beginning At one minute At two minutes New each time Constant center dot +4 +1
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