CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Exponential Growth
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn about developing exponential growth models. Here you will explore the use of Algebra to match mathematical models to observed data from real-life situations.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Population Growth
In this activity, you will study and analyze the nature and patterns of human population growth over the last 10,000 years. This will help you understand the differences between population growth before and after the Modern Revolution.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Puppy Proportions: Growth Spurts & Weight Gain in a Dog
Puppies prove to be a fun and useful aid in this adorable experiment! By having access to, and measuring a puppy's body dimensions over a period of weeks or months, you can discover if segments of canine anatomy develop at different...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Algebra I: Linear vs. Exponential Growth: From Data
Given a table with values of two quantities over time, determine whether the quantities grow linearly or exponentially. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F if Logistic Growth Model, Explicit Version
For this task, students are presented with a graph showing the growth of the U.S. population from 1790 to 1940 and are given the equation for a logistic function for it. They are asked to use the equation and the graph to find the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 6: Economic Growth: Key Terms
This is a list of key terms and definitions for terms used in Chapter 6: Economic Growth of the online Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics text.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exponential Growth and Decay
This lesson on exponential growth and decay involves a variety of teaching resources. There are a variety of websites used to teach and reinforce how to identify exponential growth or decay and how to solve problems relating to growth...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Exponential Growth
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of exponential growth, especially in comparison to linear growth. This is done in the context of weekly allowances, in which one group earns a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Malthusian Population Growth and Population Pyramids
Read this passage and study the graphics to answer the five-question quiz that follows.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Choosing Future Population
Essay on population growth past, present and future and the impact on society. Includes guiding questions for students and links to related resources.
Other
Are High Population Rates Unhealthy for a Nation?
This site debates the issue of population growth being a problem. The article specifically addresses the huge population growth in Africa.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exponential Functions: Growth and Decay
Students can use exponential functions to study growth and decay. Students will solve word problems ranging from population to interest rates.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Focus on Economic Data: The Inflation Rate
Explore the inflation rate from 2013 through this informative case study. Trace the consumer trends through the graphs and charts on the site.
University of Nottingham
Mathematics Assessment Project: Modeling Population Growth: Having Kittens
This activity unit guides students in developing strategies for modeling problems. The task focuses on investigating a cat shelter's claims about the rate of cat population growth. The unit includes a full lesson plan, examples of...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Population Growth Curves
Using Avida-ED freeware, students control a few factors in an environment populated with digital organisms, and then compare how changing these factors affects population growth. They experiment by altering the environment size (similar...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life: Population Growth
At this website there is basic information about world population growth over the last 300+ years. The link at the end of the article is to another article that compares the population growth of two states.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Something's Fishy
In this activity, students examine the size, mass, and growth rates for three species of fish. They interpolate and extrapolate from best-fit models. Students compare the growth rates of endothermic and exothermic animals.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Growing Babies
In this activity, students observe and graph data about human fetal growth rates. Students build a regression model based on the data and compare values with those of other mammals. They also compare the data to non-mammal species.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Algebra I: Exponential vs. Linear Growth Over Time
Practice analyzing the end behavior of two functions that model similar real-world relationships, where one function is exponential and the other is polynomial. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.4 Population Growth Patterns
Explore growth patterns in wildlife populations.
Geographic
Photius Coutsoukis Home Page: Honduras People
This short but informative site covers the Honduran people, population, age structure, population growth rate, birth rate, death rate, migration rate, infant mortality, life expectancy and much more. Information current to 1999.
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...
