Explanation of a cooperative activity where students in a NC Math 3 class use continuous exponential growth and decay formulas to determine how quickly their sleepy little town will fall victim to the Zombie Invasion.
2. THE ZOMBIES ARE
INVADING BEAUFORT!
You are a member of a small
team investigating the
epidemic. The fate of all of
Eastern North Carolina is in
your hands!
3. YOUR JOB
1) It is up to your team to
determine the rate of
continuous infection!
4. YOUR JOB
You will use that
information to determine
2 How soon will Beaufort
become a town of the
Walking Dead? (Only 2% of
living, breathing humans
are left in the town.)
5. YOUR JOB
You will use that
information to determine
3 Make a Google 際際滷
presentation that you can
send to the CDC (Centers for
Disease Control) that
explain the speed of the
outbreak and provide the
mathematical model for the
infection.
6. YOUR JOB
You must do all of this
before you and your team
fall victim to the infection!
(Its due on Monday morning, sent electronically to your teacher!
Dawn.adams2@carteretk12.org)
7. POSTHUMOUS AWARD
The CDC has other teams in
the field as well. They will
review all of the
presentations sent to them
in a timely fashion.
The presentation that
receives the most votes will
earn additional recognition!
8. Image Citations
All images used are labeled for reuse with modification. These images have been modified by
the use in an educational powerpoint, resizing, and the addition of borders.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/36/80558500_2c68cac608_b.jpg
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/150000/velka/zombie-man.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3927/15430263576_25a2532e77_b.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Zombies_in_Moscow.jpg
https://pixabay.com/p-1143681/?no_redirect
One note of caution! Zombies particularly like to attack anyone
who does not properly cite images they use from the internet!
Be sure you ONLY use images in the public domain or that have
been labeled for reuse (or reuse with modification).