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Mathematical modelling: Screentime footprint
Students use linear models to explore how screen time impacts carbon emissions, analysing personal digital footprints and predicting future impact.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Statistics Measurement Algebra
- Topic
- Mathematical modelling
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P7) Proportional thinking (P6) Interpreting fractions (P9)
- Publisher
Australian Academy of Science
- Copyright
© 2026 Australian Academy of Science. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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