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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: Growing, Growing, Graphing!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students explore the growth population of China and use graphs and equations to display data.
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Handout
Oregon State University

Calculus Quest: Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This CalculusQuest site provides a basic introduction to exponential functions, covering the laws of exponents and exponential growth and decay. At the bottom of the page are links to exponential equations, exercises, and the...
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Handout
Oregon State University

Calculus Quest: Questions on Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A set of exercises, complete with solutions, covering the basics of exponential functions, from the laws of exponents to exponential growth and decay.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Exponent Laws

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
View a list of laws governing exponents, including special cases. Provides formulas, visuals, references, and citation information.
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Primary
Windstream

Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Rational Exponents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A basic introduction to rational exponents, beginning with the definition and working up to an application. Includes several examples.
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Graphic
Windstream

Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to exponential functions, concentrating on models of exponential growth and decay.
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Activity
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Exponential Function

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains graphs of the exponential function, identities relevant to the function, and the Maclaurin series for this function.
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Activity
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Fourier Transform Exponential Function

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains how the Fourier transform of an exponential function is related to the Lorentzian function. Site also contains relevant links.
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Activity
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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Activity
University of Georgia

University of Georgia: One Grain of Rice Mathematical Project

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the mathematical tale about Raja, one grain of rice, and how quickly it grows. It includes a mathematical project using a spreadsheet to examine exponential growth and a calculus-based extension that explores area under a curve.
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Activity
Richland Community College

Richmond Community College: Logarithmic Functions

For Students 9th - 10th
This site which is provided for by the Richmond Community College gives information examining logarithmic functions and their graphs.
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Handout
University of California

University of California, Davis: The Calculus Page

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site, from the University of California, provides several problems from beginning differential calculus, as well as beginning integral calculus. The problems can be accessed by clicking on the link, and the information provided is...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Newton's Law of Cooling and the Calculus Behind It

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students investigate Newton's Law of Cooling and determine a model to represent the data.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today More of Us

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will investigate exponential functions and their graphs using real-life data. Students will analyze population data for the United States and create an exponential model for the scatter plot.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exponential Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After students have learned about basic exponential functions, this activity can be used to test understand of transformations of exponential equations.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exponential Functions: Growth and Decay

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use exponential functions to study growth and decay. Students will solve word problems ranging from population to interest rates.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Glencoe Algebra 1: Graphing Calculator Investigation Curve

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will make scatter plots and find the appropriate regression equations that best fit the data.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Using Derive

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students use the Derive software to solve trigonometric equations, expressions with exponentials, and log equations. They also determine the equation of tangent and normal of a function; evaluate integrals, find area...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transformations of Exponential Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity assesses student's knowledge of transformations of exponential functions. Writing exponential functions that model growth and decay are also explored.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Where Should They Hold the Fundraising Party?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn how to create a table of values for a simple linear function and use the table to create a graph on squared paper. They use the graphing calculator to display the ordered pairs and find values of corresponding to values of...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring Families of Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity provides students an opportunity to discover the similarities involved in shifting the parent functions for absolute value, quadratic, cubic, radical, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Students will also be given the...
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Activity
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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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Problem Solving: Modeling the Marathon

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use the TI InterActive! and exponential functions to predict if, and when, women will better the men's record in the marathon event in the Olympic games.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exponential Regression

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students perform exponential regression on a data set.