How to work with Sequences: Part 1

Number and sequences are everywhere! Before you start practising how to work with sequences – check out some of these random weird and wonderful number facts!

• Although the UK is a large country covering about 93,600 square miles, nowhere in it is more than 75 miles from the sea.
  
• The British drink over 163 million cups of tea daily
• Almost 25% of all women in the UK were named Mary in 1811.
• Over 6,000 people are hurt or die in Britain annually for tripping over their trousers or falling downstairs while putting them on.
• Squirrels can run at about 20 miles per hour.
• If you shuffle a pack of cards properly, it is quite possible that the exact order of cards in your hands has never been seen before.
• Sloths only poo once per week, usually in the same place.
• Around 5 babies are born every single second.
• The fleas that lived on dinosaurs were 10 times bigger than the fleas you get today.
• We can survive 3 days without water, 3 weeks without eating and 3 minutes without taking a breath.

GCSE mathematicians – you need to be able to work with sequences. For help, try our new guide “How to work with Sequences: Part 1”. It includes information about numerical and geometrical sequences. In addition there are explanations of how to work out the nth term. As always there are questions to try, and answers to check your understanding.

Click on the picture below to see the guide.