Finding an activity dealing with logistic functions was not an easy task. So what should we do? Create our own HyperDoc, of course!
While we are not Game of Thrones watchers, it would seam almost everyone else is so we decided to do a little research and instead of the zombies for most of these types of activities, we went with White Walkers. If you have no idea about these, don't worry- apparently high school students have no clue either.
Students will need computer access to plot using Desmos, Google Docs, and Google Sheets- to upload an already created data set into Desmos.
This activity begins with randomly selecting one student from the class using a random number generator. This student will infect one other student (randomly), those two students will infect one more each, so on and so forth.
Once the class data has been collected, the students go through the HyperDoc comparing exponential and logistic functions considering carrying capacity. There are several different parts to this activity, each one either using exponential or logistic growth models to make predictions and discuss the reality of these predictions.
It was a pretty smooth activity- once we adjusted some minor issues using Desmos for logistic regression (seeing that is was our first time doing this and all).
We hope you enjoy!
~rj and ssb
While we are not Game of Thrones watchers, it would seam almost everyone else is so we decided to do a little research and instead of the zombies for most of these types of activities, we went with White Walkers. If you have no idea about these, don't worry- apparently high school students have no clue either.
Students will need computer access to plot using Desmos, Google Docs, and Google Sheets- to upload an already created data set into Desmos.
This activity begins with randomly selecting one student from the class using a random number generator. This student will infect one other student (randomly), those two students will infect one more each, so on and so forth.
Once the class data has been collected, the students go through the HyperDoc comparing exponential and logistic functions considering carrying capacity. There are several different parts to this activity, each one either using exponential or logistic growth models to make predictions and discuss the reality of these predictions.
It was a pretty smooth activity- once we adjusted some minor issues using Desmos for logistic regression (seeing that is was our first time doing this and all).
We hope you enjoy!
~rj and ssb
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