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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Challenge Paying College Tuition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students write exponential equations based on the percent of increase of college costs and will graph and interpret these equations. Students use an inflationary equation to project costs using another factor which affects future...
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Khan Academy

Khan: Lsn 12: Exponential Functions, Equations, Expressions and Radicals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson 2 of 4 for Passport to Advanced Math. Students will build quadratic and exponential functions that model a given context; solve radical equations; work with rational expressions, including fractions with a variable in the...
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PBS

Pbs: Linear and Exponential Growth

For Students 6th - 8th
Explore the fast-paced nature of exponential growth. This interactive exercise focuses on introducing exponents, providing the opportunity to practice solving exponential problems, and comparing graphs of linear and exponential growth...
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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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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Carbon 14 Dating

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The task requires the student to use logarithms to solve an exponential equation in the realistic context of carbon dating. Aligns with F-LE.A.4.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: M&m's and Exponential Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use M&M's to model a decay equation - exponential equations.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Interpret Change in Exponential Models: Changing Units

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given a function that models an exponential situation, rewrite the function in order to find its change for a different time unit. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or...
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Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: College Algebra: Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete practice exercises after learning how to solve exponential growth and decay problems.
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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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University of Oregon

Basics of Exponential Growth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A site for exponential growth as it applies to population, resource consumption, polution.
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Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Logarithms and Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial contains 13 lessons on logarithms and exponential functions including exponential shortcuts and rules, graphs and rules of logarithms, and many more.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Equations & Inequalities Word Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
HSA-CED.A.1: Interactive resource which create equations and inequalities in one variable and use them to solve problems. Include equations arising from linear and quadratic functions, and simple rational and exponential functions....
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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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Exponential Growth and Decay

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le a Valuable Quarter

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The context of this task is that a quarter was put into a bank account in 1901 and young scholars are asked to calculate its value in 2013 at two different interest rates. Those amounts are compared to the appreciation rate of a rare and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Newton's Law of Cooling

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this problem, students use an exponential equation to investigate the cooling of a cup of coffee and how long it would take for it to cool down to different temperatures. Aligns with F-LE.B.5 and F-LE.A.4.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Bacteria Populations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task provides a real-world context for interpreting and solving exponential equations. Students are asked to examine the equations representing the growth of three colonies of the bacterium that causes pneumonia, each colony being...
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Khan Academy

Khan: Lsn 8: Interpreting Relationships in Scatterplots/graphs/tables/equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on Interpreting and analyzing linear, quadratic, and exponential models and graphs. Students will use best fit lines to interpret contexts, distinguish whether contexts are linear or exponential functions, use the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Exponential Models & Differential Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
This video, from Khan Academy, is about modeling different things with differential equations and this topic is well explained by modeling population.
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Other

Nearpod: Exponential Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will use the exponential function equation to solve real-life problems involving exponential growth and decay including the compound interest formula.
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Other

Wpi: Exponential Decay and Effective Medicine Dosage

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is an example of the use of exponential decay. The example involves the effectiveness of a medical dosage over time.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Equations and Inequalities Word Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Construct an equation or an inequality that models a given context. Modeling expressions can be quadratic, rational, or exponential. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video,...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Expressions and Equations

For Students 6th
A guide to support parents as they work with their students with expressions and equations.
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Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Applications of Differential Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
Scholars examine applications of differential equations. Examples explore how differential equations are used to model population, Newton's law of cooling, and engineering systems.