Modeling Tides with Trigonometric Functions
The Statistics of the American Dream
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Grade Levels
9th - 12th
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Standards
CCSSHSF-IF.A.1
CCSSHSF-IF.B.4
CCSSHSF-IF.B.5
CCSSHSF-IF.C.7
CCSSHSF-BF.A.1
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Pages
3 pages
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Description
In this activity, students analyze data sets about water depth through the daily tidal cycle. While completing this activity, students:
-- create scatterplots using desmos.com/calculator
-- practice computing the parameters of sinusoidal functions and check their work by fitting an equation to the scatterplot
-- interpret the meaning of different parameters in context
-- determine how a verbal description of changes to the environment would impact parameter values
-- introduce a new term to a basic sinusoidal function to incorporate changes in global water levels
-- draw conclusions about the environmental conditions on a fictional planet based on their estimates
Total Pages
3 pages
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Teaching Duration
50 minutes
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Standards
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CCSSHSF-IF.A.1
Understand that a function from one set (called the domain) to another set (called the range) assigns to each element of the domain exactly one element of the range. If 𝘧 is a function and 𝘹 is an element of its domain, then 𝘧(𝘹) denotes the output of 𝘧 corresponding to the input 𝘹. The graph of 𝘧 is the graph of the equation 𝘺 = 𝘧(𝘹).
CCSSHSF-IF.B.4
For a function that models a relationship between two quantities, interpret key features of graphs and tables in terms of the quantities, and sketch graphs showing key features given a verbal description of the relationship.
CCSSHSF-IF.B.5
Relate the domain of a function to its graph and, where applicable, to the quantitative relationship it describes. For example, if the function 𝘩(𝘯) gives the number of person-hours it takes to assemble 𝘯 engines in a factory, then the positive integers would be an appropriate domain for the function.
CCSSHSF-IF.C.7
Graph functions expressed symbolically and show key features of the graph, by hand in simple cases and using technology for more complicated cases.
CCSSHSF-BF.A.1
Write a function that describes a relationship between two quantities.
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