The math 1 students have been learning about exponents. For these kids I posed a question. "If you received a monthly allowance that started at $0.01 on the first day of the month and doubled every day (day 2 $0.02, day 3 $0.04, day 4 $0.08, etc.) for the rest of the month, what would your allowance be on the last day of the month?" We spent a while figuring this out.

We used December as our guide and THIS is what we found.

We then guessed if for the month of February THIS would be better than receiving $100,000 every day for the entire month.