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Exponential Growth
Learners study exponential functions. For this exponential growth lesson, students conduct a simulation in which a population grows at random but predictable rate. Learners compare and contrast linear and exponential functions. Students...
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Buying Cars/Financing Cars Compound Interest
Provide a real world context in which exponential functions are used to determine a eal world phenomena such as compound interest and exponential growth. This instructional activity should be taught after students have mastered the laws...
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Modeling Natural Disaster with Mathematical Functions
Ninth graders investigate the functional relationship of different environmental phenomena. In this math lesson, 9th graders create models of various natural disasters. They use logarithmic and exponential functions to interpret...