Superlesson
Project 3-3
Foundations of Algebra and Geometry
Chapter 3, Drawings and Patterns
Part A, Finding Patterns
1. Examine the windows on the side of the TransAmerica building facing you.
a. Make a table that shows the number of windows on each floor for the top 7 rows.
b. What is the pattern?
c. Assuming this pattern continues, fill in the table for the next 20 rows.
Part C, Making Connections
2. Look at the arrangement of cells in a Bee hive.
a. Bees make honey combs from a pattern of cells shaped like hexagons. Start at any cell and count the number of cells around it. Let that be the first "circle." For the second circle, count the number of cells about the first circle. Make a chart showing the number of cells in the first 10 circles.
b. What is the pattern?
c. What is the rule for the nth circle?