Students study exponential decay and its application to radiocarbon dating. In this exponential decay instructional activity, students use candy to model the time it takes for something to decay. Students also graph the data they collect and describe using an algebraic formula that gives the age of an object as a function.

Common Core

HSA-SSE.B.3.a HSA-SSE.B.3.c HSF-IF.B.4 HSF-IF.C.8.a HSF-IF.C.8.b HSF-LE.A.1.a HSF-LE.B.5 HSS-ID.B.6.a HSS-ID.B.6.c HSS-ID.C.7