Activity Sequence: Basic Number Sequences

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The Number Sequences Activity Sequence document can be downloaded here

Exploring basic sequences

This set of tasks is the starting point for anyone who intends to participate in the sequences activites. It requires very little prior experience in ToonTalk - a few hours of playing the puzzle game will do.

Each task is presented as a task-template. Go to the task page, and click the "new report from this template" button. This will lead you to the form for creating a new web-report. After you have done so, make sure you click the "save" button on your new report. Now follow the insturctions, and edit your report as you progress in the task.

The tasks are:

• The Add-a-number challenge
• The Add-up challenge

After you've completed those, you can try this task:

• Add Up surprises

Guess my Robot

Guess my Robot is a game in which proposers train a robot to generate a sequence, and responders try to guess that robot by looking at the first few terms it generated.
To participate in the game, you should first read:

• The Rules of the Game.

Then, choose a challenge to respond to from:

• The main game page
  

When you feel you're up to it, you can pose your own challenge using:

• The Guess my Robot Template

And write about yours and others' sequences

• My favourite sequence
• Reflections on Guess my Robot

You can also try the related:

• Small change challenge