position-to-term rule
What position-to-term rule means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Usually called the nth term, tells you what to do to the position number, so you can land on any term without the ones before it.
A rule, often called the nth term rule, that lets you calculate any term directly from its position n.
Topics that use position-to-term rule
- Sequences (AQA GCSE)
- Algebra - Sequences (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- coefficient of n²
- Common ratio
- Fibonacci-type sequence
- First difference
- quadratic sequence
- Second difference
- Sequence
- term-to-term rule
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