Intel Education: Designing Effective Projects: Track the Trends: Predict the Future?


	Designing Effective Projects: Track the Trends Content Standards and Objectives

Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
California State Standards
Math: Algebra II

Know the laws of fractional exponents, understand exponential functions, and use these functions in problems involving exponential growth and decay.
Find the general term and sums of arithmetic series and of both finite and infinite geometric series.

Math: Probability and Statistics

Organize and describe distributions of data using a number of different methods, including frequency tables, histograms, standard line and bar graphs, stem and leaf displays, scatter plots, and box and whisker plots.

Student Objectives
Students will be able to:

Conduct research, using print and electronic resources, to collect statistical data on a subject
Fit an exponential function (with correlation coefficient) to data, using a graphing calculator
Use a resulting line of best fit to make a prediction for the next five (or more) intervals
Use a spreadsheet to create a graph of the actual versus predicted data (curve of best fit)
Present predictions, implications for the future, and analysis of findings through a presentation and newsletter or wiki

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