Abstract
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).
Keywords
mathematical modeling, linear functions, regression
How to Cite
Otten, S., Otten, A., Baah, F. & Stewart, M., (2024) “Modeling the Functions of Atmospheric Carbon”, Ohio Journal of School Mathematics 96(1), 1--9. doi: https://doi.org/10.18061/ojsm.4179
Rights
Samuel Otten, Andrew Otten, Faustina Baah, Maria Nielsen Stewart