Trout Pond Population

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Trout Pond Population

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In this lesson, students will be investigating the numeric, graphical, and symbolic representations of a recursive function. Specifically, students will explore a scenario in which a trout pond loses a portion of its population to natural causes, but the pond is restocked with fish each year.

Education Levels:

9, 10, 11, 12

Subject:

Functions, Algebra

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Beneficiary:

Students

Online provider:

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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Keywords:

Iteration, Recursion, Functions

Mediator:

Secondary school teachers

Publisher:

Illuminations

Is Part Of:

http://illuminations.nctm.org/

Language:

English

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Learning Time:

1 period

Referenced Resources/Versions

Required Learning:

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lessons/imath/Trout/TroutPond-AS1a.pdf

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Mathematics

Learning Outcomes:

Broad Correlation

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010)

High School — Functions

Interpreting Functions

Analyze functions using different representations

Graph functions expressed symbolically and show key features of the graph, by hand in simple cases and using technology for more complicated cases.^★

Broad Correlation

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010)

High School — Functions

Building Functions

Build a function that models a relationship between two quantities

1. Write a function that describes a relationship between two quantities ^★

a. Determine an explicit expression, a recursive process, or steps for calculation from a context.

Broad Correlation

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010)

Standards for Mathematical Practice

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

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