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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott A Sinex
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bond University 2010-10-01
Series:Spreadsheets in Education
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Online Access:http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol4/iss2/5

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