Learning Exercise

Real Life Linear Models

This assignment was created by Mary Coyne and Linda Weber of Lincoln High School, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Course: Algebra, Modeling

Material:: Population Changes in a Trout Pond
Date last modified:: July 23, 2004
Created by:: Kurt Cogswell
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Population Changes in a Trout Pond

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Material Type:: Simulation
Author:: NCTM

Exercise

Disciplines

Audience

Requirements

linear equations, functions, graphing

Topics

Scatter Plots, Slope, X and Y-Intercepts, Line of Regression

Type of Task

Learning Objectives

Students will develop the ability to collect data and record data in a table; represent, analyze, and generalize patterns with tables, graphs, words, and symbolic rules; model problems using various representations such as graphs, tables, and equations; and make connection among the three.

To represent situations with symbolic algebra to solve problems.