Friday, January 04, 2008

Gathering Momentum: The Underpinnings of Exponential Growth

Today's primary focus was on a continued effort to convince students that either by way of experience or intuition, they should be comfortable with a handful of skills in order to move ahead in our exploration:

1. Be able to recognize when a pattern of change is exponential.
2. Be able to accurately graph an exponential growth pattern.
3. Be able to identify a growth factor and appropriate exponents for an equation representing an exponential growth pattern.

Additionally, we briefly explored the concept of what it means to have a specific starting value in an exponential growth relationship such that the resulting equation appears slightly more sophisticated.

Home Nugget #2
Assigned on Friday January 4, 2008
Due on Monday January 7, 2008

In the book Growing...
Pages 24 and 25
Problems 1 through 4 all parts

FCAs
2 points: all problems genuinely attempted in their entirety
2 points: abundant evidence that quality time and effort were spent thinking about, responding to and presenting solutions

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