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.

The graphs to the right show the maximum and minimum temperatures for December in Rotorua and Wellington.

Tau koura was the favourite traditional fishing method for harvesting lake koura and involved resting bundles of bracken fern fronds on the lake bed for koura to take refuge in and then retrieving the bundles into a canoe to harvest the koura.

New Zealand lakes and ponds often have large populations of koura or freshwater crayfish.

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This key has been built with the Lucid Builder and you need the Lucid Player installed on your computer to be able to use the key. The standard edition is a free download from LucidCentral. Please use version 2.2 or later – there are some problems with earlier versions that will affect the usability of this key.
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How to use this key Running the key
Install the Lucid Player This key has been built with the Lucid Builder and you need the Lucid Player installed on your computer to be able to use the key. The standard edition is a free download from LucidCentral. Please use version 2.2 or later – there are some problems with earlier versions that will affect the usability of this key. Download the key Once you have the Player installed, you will need to get a copy of the key you wish to play.

Solar Semidiurnal Tide (S2) chart

More details on the DOBIE Wave Gauge.

Technical Note No. 98/7 - Power Management DOBIE fitted with 256k RAM data storage has two independent power supplies: a rack of 8 D-cells (Eveready alkaline No. E95, or equivalent; ~18 Ahr) mounted in the main battery compartment and a single 9V cell (Eveready alkaline No. 522, or equivalent; ~500 mAhr) mounted in a small compartment on the back of the microprocessor housing (the black box). The 9V cell is a backup supply for securing data in RAM should the main supply fail or be drained. Note that flashcard data storage is not volatile.

Technical Note No. 98/8 - Memory Management The following equations can be used to estimate memory endurance, which is the number of bursts that will fill the data memory.