It is a collection of assignments to be used as a resource when hurricanes are in the news.
It is meant to go beyond typical assignment of- Plot the hurricane track to evaluate the hurricane track. (pre-calculus or calculus)
It main assignment asks the question:
Are there really more hurricanes now than previously? via statistics.What statistical model do hurricanes fit.
It also looks at How good was the hurricane response given how hard hurricanes are to predict.
And the form of the hurricane spiral. There are additional smaller assignments, whose main purpose is to get students to ask their own curiosity questions.
It requires a spreadsheet tool such as MS Excel or Open Office Calc.
Its main assignment is appropriate for a statistics class, but has other exercises exploring hurricanes mathematically.
Excerpt from Original email when turned assignment:
It is a collection of exercises.
Start with: HurricaneMath0GoalsOverview.
It was developed with Open Office Calc (Linux), but was briefly tested with Excel (Windows).
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Most useful new trick I learned this semester was: Putting a graph on top of a picture.
