Algebra Number Sense Grades 7–HS

Growth of Facebook

Posted 2023-11-20 09:44:31

 

In this activity, students analyze and graph the numbers and decide if Facebook's growth in the first 20 years has been linear, exponential, meteoric, or something else.  Will the number of Facebook users continue to grow or will it soon be in decline?  Let your student analyze the numbers, pick a side, and duke it out with math.

 

 ✏️Note: We first wrote this activity in 2015, and we've now added a few questions with the latest data; Updated in June, 2026.

 

Activity Solutions & Supporting Materials

Common Core standards

7.RP.3 8.SP.1 8.F.4

Topics

Scatter Plot percent Business Data exponential growth news growth factor HSS-ID.B.6 F-LE linear growth F-IF.6

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