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Mathematical modelling: What makes us happy? for Year 10.
Students analyse wealth and happiness using real data, creating scatterplots, lines of best fit and r², and evaluating limits of correlation.
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| Year level(s) | Year 10 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource |
| Format | Web page |
| Keywords | scatter plot |
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| Strand and focus | Statistics |
| Topics | Mathematical modelling, Statistical investigations |
| Numeracy progression |
Interpreting and representing data (P8)
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| Organisation | Australian Academy of Science |
| Copyright | © 2026 Australian Academy of Science. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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