Electronic Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Boston, Massachusetts, February 15-18, 2007

Paper C009

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Joanne Foster, ISBN 0-321-55846-4, Copyright (C) 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc.


In Search Of Logistic Curve - Activities For Your Students From Algebra To Calculus

Irina Lyublinskaya


CUNY College of Staten Island
2800 Victory Blvd.
1A-211
Staten Island, NY 10314
USA

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ABSTRACT

Presenter will share several engaging lab activities that can be used to introduce the logistic model, to analyze logistic function, and to solve corresponding differential equation. We will discuss data collection in the spread of disease simulation, conditional probability during drug testing, and iterations.

Keyword(s): calculus, college algebra, precalculus