In last week's class, with substitute teacher / mathematician Pat Fina, you explored these two big questions:
Specific questions that began and ended the class:
- How can you interpret a weather report to make decisions?
- What does it mean to say there is an x percent chance of something occurring?
Specific questions that began and ended the class:
- For the last two days, the weather forecast has said there is a 30% chance of rain, but it hasn’t rained. Good forecast or bad forecast?
- Yesterday, the weather forecast said there was a 90% of rain, but it didn’t rain. Good forecast or bad forecast?
- For the last week, the forecast has predicted an 80% chance of rain every day, but it hasn’t rained once. Good forecast or bad forecast?
Weather/Climate vocabulary that may come up when examining weather reports:
Math vocabulary:
- Temperature (temp)
- High/low (hi/lo)
- Precipitation (precip.)
- Humidity
- Dew point
- Pollen count
- Radar
- Wind (along with cardinal directions N/S/E/W etc., and mph)
- Wind chill
- Sunny / cloudy
- Showers / fog / snow / frost / thunderstorms / hail
- Partly / mostly / occasional / scattered / frequent
- AM / PM
- Extreme (cold / heat)
- Emergency
- Air Quality
- UV index
Math vocabulary:
- Probability / chance / likelihood
- Likely / unlikely
- Impossible / certain
- Mean / median / mode