This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to interpret exponential and linear functions and in particular, to identify and help students who have the following difficulties:
Translating between descriptive, algebraic, tabular, and graphical representation of the functions.
Recognizing how and why a quantity changes per unit interval.
To achieve these goals students work on simple and compound interest problems.
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