Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Graphing Exponential Equations
Learn about exponential functions by graphing various equations representing exponential growth and decay. Graph these functions by connecting ordered pairs on x-y axes.
Other
Wpi: Exponential Growth and Decay
This site explains exponential growth and decay and how it applies to the real world with its use in bacterial populations.
Other
Saylor Academy: Exponential Growth and Decay: Differential Equations
A textbook chapter on exponential growth and decay.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le in the Billions and Exponential Modeling
For this task, students examine world population data from 1804 to 2012 and investigate whether an exponential function is appropriate for modeling the relationship between the world population and the year. Aligns with F-LE.A.1.c.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Transformations of Exponential Functions
This activity assesses student's knowledge of transformations of exponential functions. Writing exponential functions that model growth and decay are also explored.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Algebra 1: Exponential Functions
Students will use examples and an interactive graph to explore exponential functions such as growth and decay.
Other
Algebra Lab: Applications of Exponential Functions
Explains how exponential functions have applications in real-world scenarios, including a population of a city, the growth of bacteria, drug decay, and compounding interest. Includes four word problems to try, with hints and answers...
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Graphs of Exponentials & Logarithms
Interactive graphs of base 10 exponential and logarithmic functions are demonstrated and applied to real-world problems.
University of South Florida
Fcat: Get a Half Life!: Teacher Notes
Students use M&M's and a graphing calculator to collect and graph data. This activity helps them to understand exponential functions and the concept of half-life.
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: College Algebra: Exponential Growth and Decay
Complete practice exercises after learning how to solve exponential growth and decay problems.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Growth and Decay
Practice problems that each illustrate a different use of the Law of Exponential Change. Examples and explanations are provided. Great review for the AP Calculus test!
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Algebra I: Exponential Growth and Decay
A webpage containing notes explaining that exponential growth and decay show the change of a quantity over time. Notes give equation and graphs for exponential growth and decay.
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Dow Jones Industrial Average
Students experience how exponential functions are related to the stock market through exponential growth and decay graphs.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Compound Interest
Explains, with examples, what compound interest is and how to calculate it using a formula. Also shows how to work backwards to calculate the present value of an investment, how compound interest is calculated for different compounding...
Richland Community College
Richland Community College: Exponential Models
This site from Richland Community College contains specific examples of where logarithmic and exponential formulas are used, including: exponential growth and decay, Gaussian, logistics growth, and logarithmic.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Us Population 1790 1860
In this task, students are shown a table of U.S. population data between 1790 and 1860 and are asked to explore whether exponential functions would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. The purpose of the task is to help...
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Estudio Del Crecimiento De Una Funcion
Learn with these interactive exercises the concepts of growth and decay of a function and analyze the concepts with elementary functions.
Paul Dawkins
Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Applications
Provides examples of applications of exponential functions involving compound interest and exponential growth and decay, and an example of an application of a logarithm involving earthquake intensity.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le.4 Graphene
This task provides a real-world context for examining the power of exponential growth and decay. Young scholars experiment, at the macro level, using scotch tape to pull a chip of graphite apart into two pieces. They are asked to find...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra Ii: 3.9 the Transcendental Number E and Natural Log
This section introduces the transcendental number e which is a special number that is considered a natural base. In addition to exploring how to simplify and solve equations with e, this section also investigates how it can be used to...
Purple Math
Purplemath: Logarithmic Word Problems
Logarithmic word problems generally involve evaluating a given logarithmic equation at a given point, and solving for a given variable; they're pretty straightforward. This resource contains worked examples to demonstrate the reasoning...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Polynomials Review for Test
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used to review multiplication/division of monomials, scientific notation, and exponential growth and decay. It uses the Activote.
Analyze Math
Analyze Math: Applications of Differential Equations
Scholars examine applications of differential equations. Examples explore how differential equations are used to model population, Newton's law of cooling, and engineering systems.