India and China
Description: Students research the population growth of China and India over the last decade. Based on these values they determine a linear growth model for each country and use these to predict when the population of India will overtake that of China.
Standards:
Resources:
Notes: This lab is set up to look at data from 2000 so that the y-intercept corresponds to years since 2000, this could be modified for more advance classes.
Standards:
- Finding a linear equation given the y-intercept and another point.
- Calculation of slope.
- Finding the intersection of a system of linear equations.
- Interpreting a linear model.
Resources:
- Data link: indexmundi
- pdf of a worksheet for students
- Link to interactive geogebra document (you should open downloaded file from geogebra directly, see next link).
- Link to geogebra -free download
- Geogebra directions for scatterplots and lines of best fit. Start on p. 13.
Notes: This lab is set up to look at data from 2000 so that the y-intercept corresponds to years since 2000, this could be modified for more advance classes.
