A Child's Guide to Mathematics
Sequences and Series
Sequences and Series involves knowing about:
Understand and use binomial expansion, factorals and combinations;
Work with sequences including those given for the nth term;
Understand increasing, decreasing and periodic sequences;
Understand and use sigma notation for sums of series;
Understand and work with arithmetic sequences and series including the formula for nth term and sum to n terms;
Understand and work with geometric sequences and series including the sum to infinity of a convergent geometric series and modulus notation;
Understand and work with geometric sequences and series including the sum a finite geometric series;
Use sequences and series in modelling.