In this video I show how to add the numbers from 1 to 100. The technique involved was made famous by Carl Friedrich Gauss, who as legend has it completed this problem as an elementary school student.
The bigger idea from this technique is that is gives a reliable way to add up the terms of an arithmetic sequence. This technique will be a crucial component to deriving the formula for the partial sums of an arithmetic sequence.
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