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Review homework:
Warm-up problems.
Description of the activity.
Students will examine census data on marriage Textbook
TUESDAY and divorce rates for women and men (in Notebook
9:45 – Nicaragua, if it is possible) Calculator Exercises 1.5: 3, 4, 6,
Linear
10:30 From these data, they will create a scatter plot, Ruler 9, 11, 15, 17, 20, 22,
Models
10:30-11:15 find a line of best fit, and analyze the relationship Markers 24.
between the two variables (i.e., sex and marriage/ Whiteboard
divorce rates). They will also use a residual plot, Computer with internet.
explain the meaning of the slope and of the
y-intercept of the line of best fit, and investigate
the effect of outliers on this line.
Warm-up
Define terms related
Prepare three visual representations of geometric
to geometric
sequences using dot patterns. They are included
sequences. Textbook
on the handout.
WEDNES Relate the terms in Notebook
Have your students begin by writing the
DAY Geometric geometric sequences Calculator Exercises 1.6: 1, 2, 3,
numerical terms for the visual examples given in
8:00-8:45 Sequences to real-world Ruler 9, 17, 29, 43, 44.
three different geometric sequences.
situations. Markers
Give an example of Whiteboard
Next ask your students to independently write a
how the formula is
rule for finding the next term for each of the three
derived.
geometric sequences.
Determine the terms
in the formula given After that, direct your students to discuss the rules
a real-world that they came up with in small groups (I used
situation. groups of three). They will then adjust the rule
they had written based on group discussion.
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