Some Web Based Activities
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| A look at exponential decay. Students go to the web and find the prices of 2 models of 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, and 1996 cars. They then study how the price varies over time. This activity was written to be placed in Chapter 3 of CPM Algebra 2. | |
Daylight Activity (Teacher Pages) Daylight Activity (Student Pages) Daylight Activity (Sample Answers) |
This activity plots the length of daylight with respect to the day of the year. The resulting sinusoid can be modeled many different ways including very easily with Transformation Graphing. Many students will be able to determine the correct values of the parameters through a discussion of their meaning in this particular case. |