Consecutive Sums

Item

Title

Consecutive Sums

Description

David F. Putnam Science Center, Room 181-David F. Putnam Science Center, Room 181

When you add two positive integers, the sum is a positive integer. Every positive integer, except number one, is the sum of two positive integers, but which positive integer is the sum of two or more consecutive positive integers? In this talk we will answer that question. We show how looking at examples leads us to a conjecture, and then how we prove our conjecture. In addition, we show different ways how a given positive integer can be written as a sum of consecutive positive integers, and then illustrate a method for finding those sums..

Ockle Johnson

Contributor

Keene State College

Creator

Brooke M Hatanaka

Kathrine R Marinoff

Megan E Fisk

Amanda Petrow

Date

2016-04-09

Identifier

https://commons.keene.edu/s/KSCArchive/item/21037

Language

en_US

Subject

Mathematics

Type

Presentation

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets

AEC 2016 School of Sciences and Social Sciences

Site pages

School of Sciences and Social Sciences