Fish Pond Station

By Kerri

Last week one of the stations I did was called the fish pond. In this station I used M&Ms to model exponential growth and decay.

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To model exponential decay:

I removed all the M&M's that were not M side up every time I poured them out onto a paper plate. The amount of M&M's on the paper plate decreased by about half every time. 

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To model exponential growth:

I started with two M&M's and added more depending upon how many landed M side up. The amount of M&M's on the paper plate increased every time.

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