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Curated OER

Rising Gas Prices – Compounding and Inflation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Financial literacy skills and exponential models are connected by the compound interest formula in this task centered on inflation calculations. Collaborative learners get experience collecting data from the given websites and exploring...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Exponential Decay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
I just bought that car, how can its value decrease already? Individuals use the data of a depreciating car value to create an exponential decay model. They then compare exponential decay and growth equations.
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AP Test Prep16:31
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Flipped Math

Calculus AB/BC - Exponential Models with Differential Equations

For Students 10th - 12th
Exponential models come with a shortcut. Pupils watch an example of how to determine if a differential equation is an exponential model. Learners realize the solution is in the same formula, allowing for a quick way to determine the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 11th
In this Algebra II worksheet, 11th graders solve verbal problems that involve exponential growth or decay.  The two page worksheet contains a combination of seven multiple choice and free response questions.  Answers are provided. 
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Curated OER

In the Billions and Exponential Modeling

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Modeling population growth gives learners an opportunity to experiment with real data. Comparing the growth rates in this real-life task strengthens learners' understanding that exponential functions change by equal factors over equal...
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PBL Pathways

What Should Have Happened on Gilligan's Island?

For Students 10th - Higher Ed Standards
"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale ..." Gilligan's Island is a classic that spans generations and offers a problem-solving opportunity for scholars. Take a project-based learning approach to examine the population of the island....
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Curated OER

biology - 9th Grade

For Teachers 9th
The clear cartoon style slides in this presentation contain details that affect population growth. Natural disasters and other external factors are listed as density independent factors, and density dependent factors, such as competition...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Linear or Exponential?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your learners analyze various real-life contexts to decide if each is a linear or exponential model. This could be used as an assessment of learners' skills of discerning between a linear and an exponential model.
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Key Curriculum Press

Applications of Exponential Functions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Exponential functions are the name of the game. Young mathematicians can work through each of the eight worksheets by evaluating functions, applying logarithms, completing logarithmic functions, and building inverse functions. This would...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Exponential Functions

For Students 7th - 8th
For this exponential functions worksheet, students solve and complete 20 various types of problems. First, they graph the function and state the domain and range. Then, students tell whether the graph represents exponential growth or...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Money and Spreading the Flu!

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Paper folding, flu spreading in a school, bacteria growth, and continuously compounded interest all provide excellent models to study exponential functions. This is a comprehensive resource that looks at many different aspects of these...
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Lesson Plan
Mathalicious

XBOX Xpotential

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Touchdown! This is an exponentially insightful lesson that explores the growth of football games with different video game consoles. Class members discuss whether the increase of mergahertz can be described as linear or exponential. The...
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Curated OER

Modeling Population Growth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars create linear, exponential, and quadratic models of U.S. population data to determine which function best represents U.S. population growth. They predict future populations based on each model.
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

National Debt and Wars

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Take a functional approach to the national debt. Learners collect information about the national debt by decade and plot the data. They determine whether an exponential curve is a good fit for the data by comparing the percent changes...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comparing Exponentials

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Growing money exponentially is the context of this scenario that asks learners to compare investments in two certificate of deposit accounts. Your young investment analysts will learn about the exponential characteristics of money...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exponential Functions

For Teachers 11th
Analyze functions by their shape and equation and identify decay and growth based on the equation given. Learners graph their exponential functions and differentiate it using the logarithmic versus the exponential function.
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Lesson Plan
Serendip

Understanding and Predicting Changes in Population Size – Exponential and Logistic Population Growth Models vs. Complex Reality

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Salmonella poisoning impacts over 200,000 people in the United States each year. Scholars learn about the growth of these bacteria using multiple approaches. Then they apply the same growth calculations to endangered species and think...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Snail Invasion

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Exponential growth is modeled by learners as they analyze and interpret the data presented in this real-life scenario centered on the destructive invasion of the Giant African Land Snail. Learners get a touch of history and practice...
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Balanced Assessment

A Loud Noise

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
In a scale measuring noise, an increase in 10 dB is a 10 time increase in power. Mathematicians examine the data graph of a real world exponential growth, with no logarithmic scale, and then create two equations relating the decibels and...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Cultural Growth

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Scholars read and interpret a graph relating bacterial growth in a culture over time. They apply knowledge of derivatives, estimation, and graphing to the skill practice questions.
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Worksheet
Mt. San Antonio Collage

Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers grow their skills exponentially after completing this thorough activity. Going from simple to difficult, it hits all the major skills regarding exponential and logarithmic functions including simplifying, solving,...
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Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Identifying Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Class members have the opportunity to quickly change the variables of an exponential graphs through the use of sliders on Desmos. Four graphs are given and young mathematicians, through the use of the graphing app, can discover which...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Thirty Exponential Application Problems

For Teachers 11th - 12th
In this exponential worksheet, students solve thirty application problems.  These problems cover compound interest, continuously compounded interest, and exponential growth models.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Infestation to Extermination

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers solve problems with exponential growth and decay. In this calculus lesson, students relate exponential functions to infestation and extermination. They take the derivative to find their answer.

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