Students model historical and modern carbon data using linear, exponential, and periodic functions, highlighting climate change implications.
For thousands of years, there was a gradual increase of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere. Students can model the historical data using linear functions. Then they can learn about climate change in the modern era by using a combination of exponential and periodic functions to explore carbon’s multi-faceted variation, distinguishing the recent trend (exponential) from the seasonal variation (trigonometric).
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