University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Chickscope Egg Math: Embryo Calculus
This interesting and interactive site offers information and activities on exponential functions, tangents and slopes, and "The number e."
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Choosing an Appropriate Growth Model
The goal of this task is to examine some population data for large cities from a modeling perspective. Learners are asked to decide if the population data can be accurately modeled by a linear, quadratic, and/or exponential function, and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Population Growth, Ecological Footprints, and Overshoot
In this three-part activity, students apply linear, exponential, and rational functions to explore past and projected U.S. population growth, carbon footprint trend, ecological overshoot, and effectiveness of hypothetical carbon dioxide...
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Exponential & Logarithmic Equations
Several examples on solving exponential and logarithmic equations are presented here. Practice problems and a real-world application involving bacteria growth are included.
Math2
Compound Interest and Exponential Growth
This site provides the compound interest equation, simplified compound interest equation,continuous compound interest equation, a demonstration of various compounding, and a review of loan balance.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Calcumites Are Coming! Ti 83
Students model the growth of a population and compare ideal growth with a population whose growth is limited. They use technology to find exponential and logistic regression equations and use them to plot models.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Bacteria Populations
This task provides a real-world context for interpreting and solving exponential equations. Students are asked to examine the equations representing the growth of three colonies of the bacterium that causes pneumonia, each colony being...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: Growing, Growing, Graphing!
Students explore the growth population of China and use graphs and equations to display data.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Estudio Del Crecimiento De Una Funcion
Learn with these interactive exercises the concepts of growth and decay of a function and analyze the concepts with elementary functions.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lily Pad Escape
In this video from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad uses a magic lily pad to escape from a desert island.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F if a Sse Modeling London's Population
In this task, students are shown a table of population data for the city of London and are asked to explore whether a linear, quadratic, or exponential function would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. They are next...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Us Population 1790 1860
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...
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Properties of Logarithms
The properties of logarithms are presented here, along with examples of how to apply to them to situations like population growth.