sine waves – emergent math

Thought Experiment: I bet you could teach an entire math course with this one graph.

Or at least a huge chunk of an Algebra, Stats, and/or Pre-Cal course.

Now, I'm biased of course since I got a MS degree in Atmospheric Science, but I feel like weather and climate is one of the biggest untapped wells of potential math problems. I think there are two reasons for that (aside from the "lack of expertise" / "it's not in the textbook" angles): 1) The … Continue reading Based on this plot, can you tell me when it started snowing? Or, can we fit a sine curve to it?