Sequences, Recursion, Sigma

Today we practiced sequences, recursive notation, and played with summation/sigma. The new things were mainly the latter 2. Recursive notation is a way of writing a sequence in such a way that the method calls itself. Recursive notation requires 2 things: An defined by a change in An-1 and a start point, a value for A1. Sigma notation is used when talking about adding everything up in a sequence. You put the lower limit on the bottom and the upper limit on the top. Next to the sigma, write the function that you will call each time to produce the next number in the sequence and that number will get added to the previous number until the upper liimit has been reached. You can use the calculator if the numbers get messy. 2nd -> Stat -> math for sum and -> ops for seq and then type in the function, variable being used, start value, end value