Alg1 Lesson 4.5: Modeling with Exponential Functions

Lesson Goals:
● Creative Thinking
● Talk through controversies and conflict
● Recognize and reduce ambiguity
● Encourage thinking based on formulas and prior info
● Help explain ideas to each other
● Own your ideas and work
● Record ideas in your journal
● Answer Questions on Slides
● Follow your team roles

Roles:
Facilitator
Scribe
Resourcer
Includer

Facilitator

• Make sure that all peers are staying on task.

• Give advice or suggestions to resolve the problem.

• Be sure everyone is able to explain.

Scribe

• Make sure peers organize their results on their own papers.

• Remind peers to use color, arrows, and other math tools to
communicate your mathematics, reasons, and connections.

• Be ready to join the teacher for a huddle.

Resourcer

• Make sure peers are getting the materials needed.

• Make sure that all materials are put away neatly.

• Make sure that peers are logged in to the needed site.

• Help troubleshoot any technology difficulties that may arise.

Includer

• Make sure that all peers are talking about their work.

• Helps keep peers’ voice volume low.

• Encourages everyone to ask questions.

• Communicates conflicts or questions to the teacher.

● Check off tasks & skills on calendar.

● Select skills to work on.

● Work on Deltamath.

Remember to work on the following too…

Part 1: Modeling

Depreciation

Inflation (What if you had $1,000?)

Have you noticed that prices seem to increase over
time? This is called inflation. The Federal Reserve
tries to keep inflation constantly increasing, because
a slowly increasing price level keeps businesses
profitable. A different way to describe inflation is that
the buying power of your money decreases a little bit
every year. In recent times, money has been worth
about 97% of what it was worth the previous year.

Years

Value

Part 2: Modeling Copying

Genes

Part 3: Summary and

Practice

Key Ideas to write in journal

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The algebraic form of an exponential function is f(x) = a(B)^x,
where (0, a) is the coordinate of the y-intercept and B is the
common ratio.

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When the value of B is greater than 1, it is an exponential
growth function. When the value of B is less than 1 but greater
than 0, it is an exponential decay function

●

Exponential functions grow by equal factors over equal
intervals.

●

One half of the graph of an exponential function will approach
the x-axis, while the other side gets farther away from the x-axis.

●

Exponential functions are a good choice to model scenarios
where there is a percent change.

Random Question of the Day Time

https://wheelofnames.com/4ke-epz We’ll spin
the wheel as a class and spend a minute or so
discussing our answers.