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Mathematical modelling: The steepest slopes on Baldwin St
Students investigate steepness using Baldwin Street, representing gradient in multiple ways, linking it to tangent, and communicating findings for real audiences.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Space Measurement Algebra
- Topic
- Mathematical modelling Pythagoras and trigonometry
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P7) Understanding units of measurement (P10) Proportional thinking (P7)
- Publisher
Australian Academy of Science
- Copyright
© 2026 Australian Academy of Science. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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