Logarithms Lesson 4 Episode 4 (Teachers)

Reflecting

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The students use their number line and a calculator to determine the amount of time it takes for the mold on the pizza to increase by a factor of 1,000,000.


Episode Supports

Focus Questions

For use in a classroom, pause the video and ask this question:

[Pause the video at 0:34] Why does log31,000,000 yield the time it takes for the mold to increase by a factor of 1 million?

Supporting Dialogue

In this episode, Josh and Arobindo make several connections between exponential notation and logarithmic notation. Ask your students to summarize that conversation and create their own example of a logarithmic expression. Ask them to translate that expression into an exponential expression and make connections between the two expressions, like Arobindo and Josh did.