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Analyzing the data

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A lesson plan for grades 9–12 Mathematics

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics


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Students identify a function that models the data and use an interactive graphing tool. After finding data, students use the online graphing tool to investigate the data and find a function to fit the curve of the graph provided by Illuminations.

Students will:

  • Explore exponential models in context.

NCTM Standards and Expectations covered in this lesson include:

  • Analyzing functions of one variable by investigating rates of change, intercepts, zeros, asymptotes, and local and global behavior.
  • Generalizing patterns using explicitly defined and recursively defined functions.

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