Lesson Plan: The Logistic Model Mathematics • Higher Education
This lesson plan includes the objectives and prerequisites of the lesson teaching students how to use the logistic differential equation to model situations where the growth of a quantity is limited by a carrying capacity.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- recognize the logistic differential equation and the form of its solution,
- solve the logistic differential equation,
- solve real-world problems involving the logistic differential equation.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- first-order ordinary differential equations,
- exponential growth and decay.