Year 9 - Maths
Making cities greener
Maths and the environment
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Lesson Summary
You will learn to understand various approaches to improve local environments.
Key Notes
- One approach could be improving walking or cycling routes
- One approach could be creating new green spaces
Vocabulary To Learn
- Forecast: A forecast is a prediction of a future event occurring (based on data).
- Extrapolation: Extrapolation is the process of estimating unknown values that are outside the range of existing data.
- Climate: Climate is the average weather pattern in an area across a long period of time.
- Urban: Urban is a word to describe a town or city, or certain properties of towns and cities.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- An urban area should implement all of the strategies to make itself greener.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Solve this in steps: explain the method from this lesson and why each step matters.
One approach could be improving walking or cycling routes. One approach could be creating new green spaces.
2. Use this key word in a maths sentence and explain it clearly. 'Forecast'
A forecast is a prediction of a future event occurring (based on data). Use this word when showing your method, then check your final answer is reasonable.
3. Spot and fix this common maths mistake.
Mistake: An urban area should implement all of the strategies to make itself greener. Correction: Not all strategies are viable for every urban area and some will be more effective than others depending on the location.
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