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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Bond University
2010-10-01
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| Series: | Spreadsheets in Education |
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| Online Access: | http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol4/iss2/5 |