Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Flu on Campus

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
An outbreak of the swine flu on a school campus has caused an increase in the number of boxes of tissues sold by the school store. In a real-world-modeling activity, pupils use composition of functions to determine how the number of...
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Curated OER

Finding the Flu

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils work to determine when the flu is most prevalent in the United States. They gather data on their own, create calendar, charts, and graphs, analyze their findings and present them. This is a very appropriate winter instructional...
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Mathalicious

Pandemic

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young scientists use exponential growth and logarithms to model how a virus spreads through a population. Pupils watch a news clip about the 2012 outbreak of Ebola. Scholars then manipulate inactive graphs to see how various factors...
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Curated OER

Will Exams Be Cancelled?

For Teachers 8th - 11th Standards
If the flu outbreak continues, exams will have to be canceled. Investigate the properties of exponential and logarithmic functions. In this algebra activity, students use the TI to examine and differentiate between exponential growth and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Flu on Campus

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students analyze data about the number of students being infected during an influenza outbreak. The purpose of this problem is to have students compose functions using tables of values only. Aligns with F-BF.A.1.c.