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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

The Power of Exponential Growth

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How do you make a penny grow to $5,000 in just 15 days? Use the examples in this lesson to explore the concept of exponential growth and its comparison to linear models. Pupils come to understand that exponential growth eventually...
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Activity
Firelands Local Schools

Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How can you safely model exponential growth and decay? A hands-on activity uses candies to model not only exponential decay, but also exponential growth. Exponential equations are fitted by hand and by use of a calculator to the data...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 8th - 10th
Quiz your middle and high schoolers on solving exponential growth and decay. First, they evaluate for a variable given the second variables value. Then, they graph an equation that illustrates the exponential growth or exponential decay...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Exponential Growth

For Students 8th - 10th
Explore exponential growth with this interesting scenario: You can either have $1000 a year for twenty years, or you can get $1 for the first year, $2 for the second, $4 for the third, etc, doubling in amount each year for twenty years....
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Exponential Growth: Exponential, Fractal Snowflakes

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Examine an exponential growth model. Using a fractal, learners calculate the perimeters of each stage. When comparing the consecutive perimeters, a pattern emerges. They use the pattern to build an equation and make conclusions.
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Handout
Mt. San Antonio Collage

Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Start with the basics and move up the exponential ladder to master a variety of problem-solving and application problems. The problems are heavy on exponential growth and decay, compound interest, and natural log.  
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Exponential Growth—U.S. Population and World Population

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Show how exponential growth can look linear. Pupils come to understand the importance of looking at the entire picture as they compare the US population to the world population. Initially, the populations look linear with the same rate...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploring Exponential Growth and Decay Functions

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Pupils differentiate between exponential growth and decay. In this algebra lesson, students solve exponential equations using properties of exponents. They use the Ti calculator to graph and analyze their functions.
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Instructional Video22:34
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Flipped Math

Exponential Growth

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
They grow by leaps and bounds. Learners watch a quick review on function notation as they prepare to learn more about exponential growth. Using their knowledge from sequences, pupils find out whether a function is linear or exponential,...
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Lesson Plan
West Contra Costa Unified School District

Writing Exponential Functions Based on Data

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Give your class a concrete example of exponential growth and decay using this hands-on activity. These Algebra II lessons allow for the exploration of exponential growth and decay models, as well as the discovery of the patterns of each....
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Baylor College

Calculating Exponential Growth

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
There can be a steep learning curve when teaching about exponential growth, but the lesson helps kids make sense out of the concept. When talking about exponential growth of viruses, learners may not be very interested, but when you are...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Bacteria and Exponential Growth

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
It's scary how fast bacteria can grow — exponentially. Class members solve exponential equations, including those modeling bacteria and population growth. Lesson emphasizes numerical approaches rather than graphical or algebraic.
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Lesson Plan
Ahisma Summer Institute

The Power of One - Math in a Different Angle

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
In this 2-day lesson focused on exponents, middle schoolers will cross the curriculum by engaging in science, history and language arts activities. Exponential growth will be explored using grains of rice on a chess board. Exponential...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

NUMB3RS Activity: Exponential Growth

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Mathematicians investigate exponential growth by exploring two different options for receiving allowance.  Young scholars use technology to compare a linear function with a constant rate of growth to a function that grows exponentially...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Integrated Algebra Practice: Exponential Growth

For Students 9th - 12th
In this exponential growth instructional activity, students solve 10 multiple choice and short answer problems. Students find the interest of an amount of money given the rate, time, and times compounded.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exponential Growth versus Linear Growth II

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your algebra learners discover that exponential functions, with a base larger than one, outgrow linear functions when the inputs increase sufficiently. Their analysis includes using a graphing calculator to produce tables.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Geometric Sequences and Exponential Growth and Decay

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Connect geometric sequences to exponential functions. The 26th installment of a 35-part module has scholars model situations using geometric sequences. Writing recursive and explicit formulas allow scholars to solve problems in context.
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Worksheet
University of Kansas

Exponential and Logarithm Problems

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
This worksheet manages to provide both fun and serious work solving exponential and logarithmic application problems in engaging story lines and real-life situations. A strong emphasis on science applications and numbers pulled straight...
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Wordpress

Introduction to Exponential Functions

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
This lesson begins with a review of linear functions and segues nicely over its fifteen examples and problems into a deep study of exponential functions. Linear and exponential growth are compared in an investment task. Data tables are...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Exponential Population Growth

For Students 10th - 12th
In this exponential population growth worksheet, students read word problems and determine the exponential growth of a specified populations.  They find the percent of growth and compute exponential regressions.  Students graph...
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Instructional Video20:30
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Flipped Math

Exponential Decay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The values keep getting smaller—quickly! Pupils watch a video that contrasts exponential decay with exponential growth from the first lesson in the unit. Learners identify exponential functions that are decaying and create graphs of...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Graphs of Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What does an exponential pattern look like in real life? After viewing a video of the population growth of bacteria, learners use the real-life scenario to collect data and graph the result. Their conclusion should be a new type of graph...
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Curated OER

Exponential Growth Versus Linear Growth I

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your algebra learners will discover how quickly an exponential function value grows compared to a linear function's value. Making a table of values helps in this comparison, set in the context of making a wage for raking leaves.
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Lesson Plan
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Hospitality and Tourism 1: Safety and Sanitation

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Math and science come alive in this career-related instructional activity on sanitation. Along the way, learners explore bacterial growth rates using exponential notation and graphs. A link to a very brief, but vivid video shows just how...

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