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...
Main Author: | Scott A Sinex |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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McMaster University
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Series: | Spreadsheets in Education |
Online Access: | http://sie.scholasticahq.com/article/4580-radiometric-dating-for-novice-learners-visualizing-modeling-and-simulating-via-animated-spreadsheets.pdf |
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