Activities about exponential growth
Students look into a plant that doubles in height every month and work out a rule for its height at any point, then run that rule backwards to...
The history of the Dairy Queen franchise began with this ad in Illinois in 1938: All the ice cream that you can eat for only 10 cents! We...
This year, the 30-second Super Bowl ads will cost about 8 million dollars! Do you wonder how much one ad will cost next year? In 5 years? In...
Do you enjoy watching movies?🎬 Have you ever wondered just how much money your favorite films make at the box office? Worldwide box office income is compared for...
Updated In this updated hurricane activity, we've ask students to examine the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale and consider what other elements besides this ranking may contribute to the...
Updated (2026)! Games have begun and there have been several upsets but March Madness won't be over until the finals on April 3rd and 4th. March Madness bracket...
There's a number used to quantify how fast a virus will spread, the R-naught number. As the coronavirus spread though out the world, we saw how the threat...
See the updated activity here: https://yummymath.com/post/the-most-expensive-30-seconds/
In this activity, students analyze and graph the numbers and decide if Facebook's growth in the first 20 years has been linear, exponential, meteoric, or something else. Will...
Five friends who skateboard and video tape made up a strange dance one afternoon and filmed it on February 2nd (look it up on youtube!). Now the whole...