Modeling Temperature Changes Over Time

Modeling Temperature Changes Over Time

Explore how a real-world heating process can be represented using a graph that relates time and temperature.


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Putting It All Together

Answer these open ended questions on your own or with others to form deeper math connections.

Open-ended question 1

Let be the function shown in the graph above. What does represent in the graph?

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Open-ended question 2

What does the domain represent in this context?

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Open-ended question 3

What does the range represent in this context?

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Open-ended question 4

Does changing the value of affect the domain or the range? Why?

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