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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 10
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Statistics
- Topic
- Mathematical modelling Statistical investigations
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M10ST03 AC9M10ST04 AC9M10ST05
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P8)
- Publisher
Australian Academy of Science
- Copyright
© 2026 Australian Academy of Science. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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