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What Can Soap Films Tell Us about Motorways?
This resource, from the Royal Institution, provides a series of activities which draw together a range of areas of mathematics and its applications, as well as considering how and why soap bubbles can provide the answers to some seemingly unrelated questions. Students design and test motorway networks connecting cities and, through trying out different configurations of roads, make and refine predictions. They also respond to and interpret data collected through careful measurement.
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