Everyday Mathematics introduces each mathematical concept through various learning experiences, including games and puzzles, but more powerfully, projects using real life mathematical information such as measurements, financial calculations, and
graphs of data collected by the students themselves.
According to Binder,
graphs of data ratios from the neutron spectrometer «reveal distinctive 3.4 percent and 2.2 percent dips in the relevant curves over the northern and southern polar regions, respectively — this is the kind of data «signature» one would expect to find if water ice is present.
This fall, a Ph.D. student at UC Irvine tweeted
a graph of data collected by the National Snow and Ice Data Center that sparked a firestorm of debate.
His first glimpse of one came in 1999, when he saw
a graph of the data on a wave that had struck a drilling rig in the North Sea on New Year's Day in 1995.
One way to weed corrupted data out of a high - dimensional data set is to take 2 - D cross sections of
the graph of the data and see whether they look like Gaussian distributions.
Make
a graph of your data with the type of comet (large or small) on the horizontal axis and the average % melted on the vertical axis.
A new Science paper includes
this graph of data providing clues to past global temperature.
Here's
a graph of their data:
... It is looking increasingly likely that we are going to see new records, perhaps even new records on
all graphs of all data sets.
Clicking on a placemark brings up station information along with a link to
a graph of the data for that station.