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Peer reviewedMcDonald, Michael A.; And Others – Primus, 1996
Discusses a precalculus project in which students create a model United Nations to present and discuss the long-term prognosis for individual countries given data on population growth and food production. Students compare exponential and linear functions to determine whether starvation will occur and prepare oral and written presentations of their…
Descriptors: Calculus, Functions (Mathematics), High Schools, Higher Education
