median
don steward
mathematics teaching 10 ~ 16

Thursday 30 November 2017

product of three consecutive numbers

on one of Ed Southall's tweets
[ September 16th 2017 ]

interesting to think why it works: diagrammatically, as well as algebraically

[ the algebra is probably simpler with (n - 1) n (n + 1) + n ]






















how is a general rule adapted for three numbers that are in (a constant difference) sequence rather than being consecutive?

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