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Curated OER
What is Exponential Growth?
Exponential functions often involve the rate of increase or decrease of something. When it's a rate of increase, you have an exponential growth function! The instructor discusses exponential function and how to determine if a value makes...
Curated OER
How Do You Solve a Word Problem with Exponential Growth?
Does this word problem describe exponential growth? Is something increasing? Is it increasing at a constant rate? How much is it increasing? Use the function formula for exponential growth to figure out this problem.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: The Power of Exponentials, Big and Small
Through this video lesson, students compare exponential growth to polynomial growth and discover how quickly the number can grow or decay in exponentials.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Flu Math Games
This video lesson shows students that math can play a role in understanding how an infectious disease spreads and how it can be controlled. During this lesson, students will see and use both deterministic and probabilistic models and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Exponential Growth in the Real World: Lesson 1
This lesson will provide real world examples that involve setting up and solving for an exponential growth problem. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Exponential Growth in the Real World."
Other
Domain and Range of Exponential Functions
Students will watch a short video to explore the domain and range of exponential growth and decay equations.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Pre Calculus: Exponential Growth
Video in which the instructor does a four-part example problem dealing with bacteria growth. The basic exponential growth equation is given, and it is used in a different way to solve each part of the problem. Natural logarithms are used...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Exponential Growth and Decay: Exponential Growth
In this video lesson students explore exponential growth involving bacteria.
Virtual Nerd
Virtual Nerd: What Is Exponential Growth?
Instructional video takes a look at exponential growth and exponential functions. [7:08]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Models for Growth
Video program looks at linear growth, least squares, and exponential growth, and applies statistics to examine growth patterns in real-life situations: a study of growth problems in children and grwoth of world oil production over time.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Algebra I: Compound Interest Practice
Explore how to determine the amount of compound interest earned on an investment. Assess learning with a quiz. [4:56]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Recognizing Exponential Behavior
This video tutorial reviews how to recognize exponential behavior in sequences, graphs, and tables. The lesson provides detailed examples.
Virtual Nerd
Virtual Nerd: How Do You Solve a Word Problem With Exponential Growth?
In this tutorial, learn how to turn a word problem into an exponential growth function, then solve the function to get the answer. [6:43]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Algebra: Exponential Growth Functions
Video shows creating a table of values and graph for an exponential growth function to demonstrate how fast it grows. Gives a real world example involving chain letters. [7:41]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Continuing a Trend Representing Exponential Growth or Decay
In this lesson, students will learn Continuing a Trend Representing Exponential Growth or Decay.
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Exponential Growth
Paul Andersen explains how populations experience exponential. He begins by address the major players; N (population size) and r (growth rate). He models population growth in rabbits through four generations. He then shows you how to use...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Logistic Growth
Paul Andersen explains how populations eventually reach a carrying capacity in logistic growth. He begins with a brief discussion of population size ( N ), growth rate ( r ) and exponential growth. He then explains how density dependent...