Tricks with Geometric Sequences



I always used one of the following tricky problems to introduce the concept of geometric sequences.
I posed the the problem to my students and then had them each write down a guess (I did not allow any calculators to be used -- I wanted them to go with their intuition!)

How many snaps?

Salary Problem (Double each day)

Tearing Paper in Half



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