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    Rainy Wellington days

    News article
    28 August 2008

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    New climate change projections released for New Zealand

    News article
    27 May 2008

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    Winter in Queenstown

    In a meaningful context, students will be able to explain the meaning of negative numbers, sketch and interpret graphs which represent everyday situations and make statements about time-related variation.