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Modeling Population Growth: Having Kittens
In this lesson from the Math Assessment Project (MAP), students are given a mock poster that claims that "In just 18 months, this female cat can have 2000 descendants". Students are given information like kitten gestation, maturation, litter size, average litters per year, etc and asked to determine whether the…
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About Mark Trushkowsky

Mark enjoys doing math problems that take weeks, family sing-a-longs and reading late into the night. At 16, he believed the next American revolution would be waged through poetry. Now he believes it is adult basic education. But he still likes poetry. Mark has worked in adult literacy and HSE since 2001. He is a founding member of the NYC Community of Adult Math Instructors (CAMI). He was born and raised in Brooklyn. He currently lives happily ever after in Minnesota with his partner Sarah, their daughter Liv, 4 chickens and a dog named French Fry. Follow him on Twitter (@mtrushkowsky)