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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Matter of Half Life and Death

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Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the topic of exponential decay and half-life. The lesson is built around Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, and it's declining radioactivity over the course of years. Exponential equations are used and evaluated, and technology is used to create tables for observation.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)