Learning Goals
Students will be able to analyze real-world datasets using differences, ratios, graphs, and contextual evidence to determine whether a situation is linear, exponential, or neither.
Students will be able to construct and interpret an exponential model by explaining its initial value, growth or decay factor, rate, coefficients, domain, and graph behavior in context.
Students will be able to justify the use of positive, negative, and rational exponents in authentic exponential models using consistent properties of exponentiation.
Students will be able to communicate and revise an evidence-based explanation that connects a real-world situation, data, function, and graph while responding constructively to peer feedback.
Products
Real-World Exponential Investigation Record
Each student documents a candidate real-world pattern, verifies the data source, tests linear and exponential evidence, builds and interprets a model, explains relevant exponent properties, and records revisions based on feedback.
Math in Motion Exponential Model Presentation
Teams synthesize members’ investigations into a poster, slide deck, or short video that uses reliable data to classify and model a real-world pattern, explain the function and graph, acknowledge limitations, and show meaningful revision for the showcase.
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