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Secondary learners investigate exponential functions in a real-world scenario. They collect data on the temperature of a cooling baked potato, enter the data into lists, and graph the data using a scatter plot before finding an exponential function that models the data.

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exponential functions, exponential regression, scatter plots, graphs

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Grade
9th - 12th
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Math
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Inquiry-Based Learning
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Year
2001
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HSA-SSE.B.3.a HSA-SSE.B.3.b HSA-SSE.B.3.c HSF-IF.C.7.a HSF-IF.C.7.e HSF-IF.C.8.a HSF-IF.C.8.b HSF-LE.A.1.a HSS-ID.B.6.a HSS-ID.C.7 MP4 MP5

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