Science Leadership Academy

For the second quarter benchmark in Pre-Calculus, students tied together concepts involving transformations and trigonometric functions, and applied those principles in order to model real world data. Students collected data and generated sinusoidal functions modeling the average temperature and sunset times for one major US city. As a final product, students generated a detailed process guide explaining the process that they engaged in while generating their model functions. Their guide had to include graphical representations of their functions as well as their data points, and was meant to clearly explain their problem solving process.