Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exponential Models and Logarithmic Scales
In this activity, students will analyze exponential growth data and then switch to a logarithmic scale. Includes both an exponential and a linear regression on the data, and asks students to make connections between two forms of...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Ti Navigator: Compound Interest
This lesson introduces students' to Activity Center. In this lesson, students will explore the effect of compound interest on the amount of an investment over time. Students will work in small groups (or individually) to calculate...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Growth and Decay Formulas
In this question set, students use exponential growth and decay functions to solve problems about compound interest, population growth, investments, and half-life. Solutions and explanations are provided for these problems.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Invasion of the Multipliers
In this activity you will model the population growth of these new "multipliers" on our planet.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Pearson Prentice Hall Algebra 2: Exploring Exponential Models
Students will model exponential growth and model exponential decay. Students will make a visual choice of an appropriate model and then use the Transformation Graphing App to confirm their choice.
NC State University
Nc State University: Population Dynamics
Students will understand the ecological concepts behind population dynamics of wildlife species.
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: College Algebra: Exponential Growth and Decay
Complete practice exercises after learning how to solve exponential growth and decay problems.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix:i Pod Inspired Writing Lesson:linear & Exponential Growth Poetry
This is a writing activity perfect for a math class, it's designed to help learners see the differences between linear (arithmetic, adding) and exponential (geometric, multiplying) growth. Students explore the ideas of linear and...
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.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Graphing Exponential Functions: Intro
An in-depth lesson which teaches you how to graph exponential equations. Examples are worked through step by step and explained in detail for different exponential equations.
Other
Wpi: Exponential Growth and Decay
This site explains exponential growth and decay and how it applies to the real world with its use in bacterial populations.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee
The purpose of this task is to introduce the idea of exponential growth and then connect that growth to expressions involving exponents. It illustrates well how fast exponential expressions grow. Students who are just learning about...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Exponential Growth and Decay
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Distinguish between exponential growth and exponential decay.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Exponential Growth and Decay
The tutorial explores exponential growth and decay. Definitions, formulas, and example problems are included in the learning resource.
Analyze Math
Analyze Math: Applications of Differential Equations
Scholars examine applications of differential equations. Examples explore how differential equations are used to model population, Newton's law of cooling, and engineering systems.
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
University of Saskatchewan: Modelling Natural Growth
This site shows how to model exponential growth. The site walks the student through an example problem using logarithms to find the exponential growth of the theoretical world population.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Population Dynamics: Self Check Quiz
Take this five-question, self-checking quiz on population dynamics in ecology.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Algebra 1: Exponential Growth Functions
An exponential function is a nonlinear function that has the form of y=a*b^x, where a != 0, b > 0. An exponential function with a > 0 and b > 1, like the one above, represents an exponential growth and the graph of an...
Cool Math
Coolmath: Exponentials & Logarithms the Exponential Monster
This algebra lesson explains how exponential growth works and what the formulas look like.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Exponentials Alien Monster Growth
This Algebra Cruncher generates an endless number of practice problems for the exponential growth of alien monsters with solutions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Population Growth Patterns
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will identify the definition of carrying capacity and analyze other types of growth patterns of a population and relate these to the population dynamics of...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le in the Billions and Exponential Modeling
For this task, students examine world population data from 1804 to 2012 and investigate whether an exponential function is appropriate for modeling the relationship between the world population and the year. Aligns with F-LE.A.1.c.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Rumors
In this task, students investigate the exponential growth of a rumor about a celebrity. Aligns with F-LE.A.2.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Snail Invasion
In this task, students investigate the power of exponential growth in this real-world example of an invasive species that was introduced to Florida in 1966, a giant snail. Aligns with F-LE.A.2 and F-LE.A.4.