- Roll: who's new?
- Announcements
- A reminder to put your phones away, please.
- New folks need to give me a card, and sign the
class agreement.
- I still have some workbooks, if anyone needs one. A
bargain at $1!
- Good news -- everyone's had Calc II!
- Not-so-Bad news -- no other course is common to all!:)
- You have a new assignment for next time. Keep an eye on
the assignments page.
- Today:
- Discuss homework problem (20-25 minutes): Togolese
Temperatures -- the UP of the UPCE process.
- The question: "Are surface temperatures in Togo, West
Africa, rising?"
- We are provided time-series on 10 towns in Togo, averages
of max and min temperatures by year.
- What do we know?
- Impressions... get together with your partner/group
- What's the answer to the question?
- What do we need to know from Togolese meteorologists?
- What's next? Impressions are nice, but models are better....
- Your first mini-project
- Examples of problems and models: Model Classes -- the function zoo
- The Basic Problem
- Linear functions are arguably the most important in
mathematics. I just showed this linear model in my
calculus (mat129) classes yesterday:
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- Adventures (and misadventures!) in modeling
- James Stewart's Calculus, p. 25: your
introduction to the Keeling CO2 data. (If
all you have is a hammer....). What would you see in
the residuals? Stewart describes interpolation,
extrapolation, and the dangers of his model
(p. 27).
- More hammers (some nails!)
- A UMAP misadventure
- Beasts whose
existence may be unknown to you, but which may prove
useful.
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