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Curated OER

The Mister Runtles' Bet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars listen to a story dealing with exponential and linear growth. After reading the story, students complete a table comparing information. Using a calculator, young scholars graph the rice and daily population of flies....
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Curated OER

Exploding Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss how numbers increase when exponential growth is occurring. They view a video and compare exponential and linear growth with a graphing calculator.
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University of South Florida

Fcat: Get a Half Life!: Teacher Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use M&M's and a graphing calculator to collect and graph data. This activity helps them to understand exponential functions and the concept of half-life.
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Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble

Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Exponential Functions and Models

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The resource investigates exponential functions and models. Students learn about the concepts through notes and examples. A chapter quiz, review exercises, and chapter summary are included.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Calculating Exponential Growth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Disease is a breakdown in structures or functions of an organism. Some diseases are the result of damage by infection by other organisms. For this lesson learners read an essay, "It's All in the Numbers," about the rapid spread of HIV...
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University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

University of Saskatchewan: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Saskatchewan's Department of Mathematics and Statistics provides high school students with online tutorials and exercises on what they deem some of the most important topics in exponential and logarithmic functions....
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University of Guelph

University of Guelph: Physics Tutorials: Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
Good site explaining exponential growth and decay, with questions for students to test themselves.
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Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy: Population Management

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan, students learn about the necessity of managing the herd size and grazing rights of the cattle in East Africa. [6.01]
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Compound Interest

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains, with examples, what compound interest is and how to calculate it using a formula. Also shows how to work backwards to calculate the present value of an investment, how compound interest is calculated for different compounding...
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Handout
Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Applications

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides examples of applications of exponential functions involving compound interest and exponential growth and decay, and an example of an application of a logarithm involving earthquake intensity.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Limiting Factors to Population Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize limiting factors to the population growth and understand how the factors influence the growth in poplution.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Population Growth Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Check out the patterns of population growth and recognize the exponential and logistic growth similarities and differences.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, discover the meaning of exponential functions, rules, and graphs along with some solved examples and a few practice questions to test your understanding.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Chess Wager

For Students 6th - 9th
Harry and his friend make a wager on a game of chess and discuss the concept of exponential growth in this short Cyberchase video. [3:26]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lily Pad Escape

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad uses a magic lily pad to escape from a desert island.
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Oregon State University

Calculus Quest: Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This CalculusQuest site provides a basic introduction to exponential functions, covering the laws of exponents and exponential growth and decay. At the bottom of the page are links to exponential equations, exercises, and the...
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Windstream

Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to exponential functions, concentrating on models of exponential growth and decay.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Chickscope Egg Math: Embryo Calculus

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interesting and interactive site offers information and activities on exponential functions, tangents and slopes, and "The number e."
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University of Georgia

University of Georgia: One Grain of Rice Mathematical Project

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the mathematical tale about Raja, one grain of rice, and how quickly it grows. It includes a mathematical project using a spreadsheet to examine exponential growth and a calculus-based extension that explores area under a curve.
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Handout
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Exponential Functions and Their Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The site explains exponential functions and characteristics of their graphs.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Pile It On

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson focuses on the age-old problem of whether to accept a large sum of money, or to accept a proposition in which a chessboard is filled with grain (each square getting double the...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: What Is the Number "E"?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students explore the fundamental theorem of calculus. They apply this theorem to understand the number "e" - the base of the natural logarithm. They also use integration and natural logarithmic function to solve a...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exponential Functions: Growth and Decay

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use exponential functions to study growth and decay. Students will solve word problems ranging from population to interest rates.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exponential Growth Experiment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will work in pairs and will conduct a growth experiment. They will record their answers for 7 to 10 trials. They will make a scatterplot of their data and share their graphs with the class.