Sequence Vocabulary

Ordered list of numbers that often forms a pattern. A sequence is discrete, not continuous.

• Sequence

• Term of a Sequence

• Arithmetic Sequence

• Common Difference

Each number in a sequence

• Recursive

• Term of a Sequence

• Common Ratio

• Common Difference

A number sequence formed by multiplying a term in a sequence by a fixed number to find the next term.

• Arithmetic Sequence

• Term of a Sequence

• Geometric Sequence

• Common Difference

A number sequence formed by adding a fixed number to each previous term to find the next term

• Arithmetic Sequence

• Term of a Sequence

• Geometric Sequence

• Common Difference

The fixed number (any real number) added to each term in an arithmetic sequence.

• Arithmetic Sequence

• Term of a Sequence

• Common Ratio

• Common Difference

The fixed number (any real number) multiplied to each term in a geometric sequence.

• Geometric Means

• Term of a Sequence

• Common Ratio

• Common Difference

The missing terms in an arithmetic sequence. 

• Arithmetic Sequence

• Arithmetic Means

• Geometric Means

• Common Difference

The missing terms in a geometric sequence. 

• Arithmetic Sequence

• Arithmetic Means

• Geometric Means

• Common Ratio

To repeat a process over and over again

• Recursive

• Arithmetic Means

• Geometric Means

• Sequence