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Workshop 6 Exponential Functions Lesson Plans
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Introduction

Lesson Plan 1: Overrun by Skeeters - Exponential Growth

Lesson Plan 2: Bigger and Smaller - Exponent Rules
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Introduction

Lesson Plan 1: Overrun by Skeeters - Exponential Growth
This lesson provides students with an introduction to exponential functions. The class first explores the world population since 1650. Students then conduct a simulation in which a population grows at a random yet predictable rate. Both situations are examples of exponential growth.
Lesson Plan 2: Bigger and Smaller - Exponent Rules
Teacher This lesson will teach students about several of the rules regarding exponents. It uses a situation from Alice in Wonderland in which Alice's height is doubled or reduced by half depending on what she consumes to introduce negative exponents and the rules for dividing powers.

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