Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le, a Rei Population and Food Supply
In this task, students analyze the sizes of a country's population and of its food supply to determine when and if food shortages will occur. To solve it, they must construct and compare linear and exponential functions and find where...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Exponential Growth Versus Linear Growth Ii
In this task, young scholars compare exponential and linear functions and find that exponential functions with a base larger than one eventually exceed in value any given linear (or polynomial) function if the value of the input is...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Exponential Growth Versus Polynomial Growth
In this problem, students compare the growth of exponential functions versus polynomial functions and find that an exponential function takes larger values than a cubic polynomial function provided the input is sufficiently large. Aligns...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Exponential Growth Versus Linear Growth I
In this task, students analyze two methods of payment to discover how an exponentially increasing quantity eventually surpasses a linearly increasing quantity. Aligns with F-LE.A.3.