Here is a website with a lot of resources on mathematical modelling. (http://www.math.montana.edu/frankw/ccp/modeling/topic.htm) I hope it is the same "modelling" that we are talking about in class.
Personally I find it is quite similar to steps in scientific methodologies. If you do have a graphical calculator or a data logger, you can try out some of the activities there.
Anyway enjoy reading!
You are in part right to say that math modelling is similar to the scientific methods as all scientific theories are themselves mathematical models. The difference I feel is that in Secondary school science, the emphasis may not be in the process of formulating the real world problem into a mathematical problem and solving it mathematically. Sometimes, the mathematics may be applied the blackbox way, e.g. curve fitting via least squares regression.
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