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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Compound Interest

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains, with examples, what compound interest is and how to calculate it using a formula. Also shows how to work backwards to calculate the present value of an investment, how compound interest is calculated for different compounding...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Us Population 1790 1860

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are shown a table of U.S. population data between 1790 and 1860 and are asked to explore whether exponential functions would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. The purpose of the task is to help...
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Logarithmic Word Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
Logarithmic word problems generally involve evaluating a given logarithmic equation at a given point, and solving for a given variable; they're pretty straightforward. This resource contains worked examples to demonstrate the reasoning...
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Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Applications of Differential Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
Scholars examine applications of differential equations. Examples explore how differential equations are used to model population, Newton's law of cooling, and engineering systems.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lily Pad Escape

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad uses a magic lily pad to escape from a desert island.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Pile It On

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson focuses on the age-old problem of whether to accept a large sum of money, or to accept a proposition in which a chessboard is filled with grain (each square getting double the...
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NC State University

Nc State University: Population Dynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will understand the ecological concepts behind population dynamics of wildlife species.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Population Dynamics: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this five-question, self-checking quiz on population dynamics in ecology.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Populations, Biodiversity and Politics of Sustainability

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore the value of biodiversity, the impacts that humans are having on the Earth's biodiversity, and measures that can be taken to preserve biodiversity.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Properties of Logarithms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The properties of logarithms are presented here, along with examples of how to apply to them to situations like population growth.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: African Lions: Modeling Populations

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn to distinguish between exponential and logistic growth of populations, identify carrying capacity, differentiate density-dependent and density-independent limiting factors, apply population models to data sets and determine...

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