In math class we all had to make graphs based on the population of the world. My graph looks like this because first the population goes up. Then it drops down because of wars and people from sicknesses. Then it goes up because people are sort of getting better ways to help fix the problems that were not fixed before. Again the population drops a little bit, not as much as before. It drops because some thinks crash and fall on people like buildings or people get into accidents. Soon it keeps on going up because people can think well and can solve almost all of the problems that were problems before. Some problems I had was I did not know what numbers I should have put on the bottom. I was surprised that there weren’t as many people as I thought there would be in the world. At first I had my graph looking differently but after Anna said something I changed it. I am still a bit confused so my graph might not look 100% accurate.
Olivia, you’re right – figuring out the intervals for the x and y axes was the trickiest part of this problem. I like your reasons for this guess about population growth. Now that we saw the video about the actual population growth, how would you change the shape of your graph?
http://www.prb.org/Multimedia/Video/2011/video-7-billion.aspx