Radiometric Dating for Novice Learners: Visualizing, Modeling, and Simulating via Animated Spreadsheets
Radiometric dating is introduced to beginning students in a real-world fashion through animated spreadsheets. Students discover the behavior of the parent-daughter relationship in radioactive decay, how the parent-daughter ratio yields the age, and a number of assumptions involved in radiometric da...
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2010-10-01
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| description | Radiometric dating is introduced to beginning students in a real-world fashion through animated spreadsheets. Students discover the behavior of the parent-daughter relationship in radioactive decay, how the parent-daughter ratio yields the age, and a number of assumptions involved in radiometric dating. After exploring the concepts, and with some elementary mathematical modeling skills, students analyze data from the literature. |
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| title | Radiometric Dating for Novice Learners: Visualizing, Modeling, and Simulating via Animated Spreadsheets |
| title_full | Radiometric Dating for Novice Learners: Visualizing, Modeling, and Simulating via Animated Spreadsheets |
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| title_short | Radiometric Dating for Novice Learners: Visualizing, Modeling, and Simulating via Animated Spreadsheets |
| title_sort | radiometric dating for novice learners visualizing modeling and simulating via animated spreadsheets |
| topic | radioactivity radiometric dating discovery learning modeling and simulation |
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