Paper-folding - Exponential Growth/Percentage Change
Posted on 8/2/2016 by Trey Cox
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In this activity students are posed a simple question, "How tall will a paper be if it is folded 50 times?" and it is used as a fun way to introduce them to the concepts of growth factors, and percentage change.
MythBusters-_Folding__Paper_Seven_plus_times.mp4
Standards
HSF-IF.A.2 HSF-IF.B.4 HSF-IF.C.7 HSF-IF.C.7e HSF-IF.C.9 HSF-LE.A.1 HSF-LE.A.1b HSF-LE.A.1c HSF-LE.A.2 HSF-LE.A.3 HSF-LE.B.5 MP.1 MP.3 MP.4Math Practices
MP.1 MP.3 MP.4Grades
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