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Adventures With The Fish Pond: Population Modeling ActivityAdventures With The Fish Pond: Population Modeling Activity
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7th - 9th
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Adventures With The Fish Pond: Population Modeling

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Build up from the previous activity where your learners charted the population growth and decay of a fish pond with M&Ms®. Have them look at the data from that activity and create a Now-Next, or recursive equations, to predict the next year of change. Great to use as an individual assignment or homework from the prior activity. 

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earth day, the recursive formula, math applications, real-world applications

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earth day, population activity, real life math, earth day math, recursive equation, recursive formula, math

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  • Use during Earth Day to relate our environment to math
  • Answer key included

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