Students will…
Use mathematical thinking to develop mathematical representations (tables and graphs) of phenomena (changes in population size over time) to support claims of why it takes multiple doses of antibiotics to wipe out a large bacterial population. Construct an Explanation: Apply scientific ideas (about reproduction rates and probabilities of dying) and evidence (from patterns in a mathematical model) to provide an explanation of why it is necessary to take all of the prescribed doses of antibiotics, even when we are already feeling better in advance of finishing them and how what we discovered might be relevant for explaining what might have happened in Addie
WHAT WE FIGURE OUT – How bacteria react when antibiotics are added to the system, antibiotics do not don’t kill all the bacteria right away, small number of live bacteria will reproduce