Computer Programming

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Modeling Population Growth (Ideal vs. Logistic Model)

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This activity provides instructions to construct a mathematical model on a blank spreadsheet that simulates population growth using an ideal model and a logistic model. The activity provides background discussion and then gives instructions on how to program a spreadsheet to produce and display the ideal and logistic population models. Their results are studied for various cases including human population, rabbits, polar bears, bacterial and yeast colonies. This quantitative population model

9th - 12th

Biology, Environment, Graphing

Numbers Spreadsheets and Graphs

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Diane YalePeabody

The skills needed to create spreadsheets and graphs will stand students in good stead from junior high school through college and into their professional lives as adults. Start in 7th grade to teach your students how to create these data and math skills with Apple’s program called Numbers. And although, the assignments provided in this unit are written to take advantage of the tools available in Numbers, if you’re a Microsoft user, the ideas can be easily converted to Excel spreadsheets and g

7th - 9th

Computer Science - Technology, Graphing

Skittle Statistics MS Excel Lab

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3D-PT

This is a 1 class MS Excel lab for a computer or math class. You can have the students explore the distribution of different color Skittles in class. This is a great mini-lab or half-day activity when you school ends up with a weird schedule day. Tell them they can't eat till the Skittles till the end of class, or they will distort their numbers. Also make sure they don't throw them or shove them up their nose (Yes, stuck Skittles are hard to extract, ask me how I know..) The goal of this lab i

6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

Computer Science - Technology, Graphing, Science

CCSS, NGSS

6.SP.A.1

, 6.SP.A.2

, 6.SP.A.3

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