Home > Investigating Growth of Populations > Microbes
   

  Microbes

 
Scale
Making growth visible
Modeling growth as doubling
Representing doubling
Rate of growth
Data modeling
Classroom lessons
Resources
    Representing Doubling
    Big ideas
 
  • Drawings- Drawings can make explicit what we mean by doubling.

  • Tables- Tables are good ways for recording time and quantity.

  • Graphs- Graphs are a good means for visualizing relationships between time and quantity.

  • Equations- Equations provide algebraic shorthand for summarizing relationships between time and quantity.

- piece-wise linear function y= mx+b

- exponential function y=2 x

    Go to the related classroom lessons
Last Updated: February 17, 2005
All Rights reserved.