How is coronavirus spreading so fast? A math lesson you probably forgot holds the answer.
That's an example of exponential growth, and it's something we don't see very often in real life, said Lipson, who often talks about exponential growth as it relates to computing power and artificial intelligence.
In our day-to-day experience, growth usually happens at a much steadier rate — more like the $10,000 option.A highly contagious virus like the one that causes COVID-19 has the potential to spread exponentially — and in many areas of the world, it is currently doing so. One sick person quickly becomes two; two becomes four; four becomes eight. Graph it on a chart, and the line quickly skyrockets upward.
They'll apply those lessons later in financial calculations, statistics, algebra and trigonometry. For some of her students, she brings the lesson home by doing hands-on activities demonstrating exponential growth — the results are often shocking to them.
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