Lesson 3: Modeling Data with Functions

This lesson helps to bring students to an understanding of how using theoretical approximations can often help us to understand real world phenomena that are less accessible to pure mathematical calculations. This is done by introducing students to the concept of "regression", where scattered data has a line or curve fit to it that, in some sense, best approximates the data. In this lesson, we explore how many very important phenomena in the physical world can be approximated excellently by the range of mathematical functions we have so far reviewed.


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