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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Graphs of Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn to recognize, evaluate and graph exponential functions. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt...
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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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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le a Saturating Exponential

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this problem, students use an exponential equation to investigate the warming up of a cold beverage on a summer day and analyze a graph to estimate temperatures. Aligns with F-LE.B.5 and F-BF.B.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Graphs of Exponentials & Logarithms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Interactive graphs of base 10 exponential and logarithmic functions are demonstrated and applied to real-world problems.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Algebra I: Exponential Functions From Tables & Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write exponential functions of the basic form f(x)=a * b squared, either when given a table with two input-output pairs, or when given the graph of the function. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try...
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Graph of Exponentials

For Students 6th - 9th
This algebra lesson explains how to graph exponentials.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Dow Jones Industrial Average

For Students 9th - 10th
Students experience how exponential functions are related to the stock market through exponential growth and decay graphs.
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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

Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: Growing, Growing, Graphing!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students explore the growth population of China and use graphs and equations to display data.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Population Curve: Significance of Breakpoints

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about three models of population growth: linear, exponential, and logistic. Then conduct a population experiment to see how populations can work in the real world, and see how linear graphs can help simplify complicated ones.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Algebra 1: Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will use examples and an interactive graph to explore exponential functions such as growth and decay.
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University of South Florida

Fcat: Get a Half Life!: Teacher Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners 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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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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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: That's Interesting!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students compare simple and compound interest in graph form. By doing this students will gain insight into interest and interest formulas, exponential and linear growth, and real world investment strategies.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F if a Sse Modeling London's Population

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...