What do you notice? What do you wonder?

1. In each case, draw a horizontal line and measure the angle that the street makes when it meets the horizontal line.
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2. How is living on a steep street different from living on a level or flat street? Think of as many differences as you can.

A playground is on higher ground than its parking lot. The angle from the parking lot to the playground is . Here’s one way to build steps to get from the parking lot to the playground.

1. Create a drawing to show what the steps look like for the following angles from the parking lot to the playground. Make the height of each step 1 unit tall.
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2. How many steps are needed to get up from the parking lot to the playground for each angle?
3. At about what angle do you think the steps would be too steep or too hard to climb up? Explain or show your reasoning.