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See: Math Joe, I very much like your idea of using spreadsheets to model different "savings and loan" arrangements. I think that playing around with numbers is essential to building intuition. And spreadsheets seem like an excellent way to do that, especially for that kind of problem. And a very natural one that leads directly into work skills. I think a key thing to learn is the different kinds of families of functions and their qualitative differences, such as linear vs. exponential. If math is a study of systems, then that includes especially realizing when systems or models break down, when they apply and when they don't apply. Among my favorite exponential modeling problems are:
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