Algorithms: Year 7 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 7 is for the topic of Algorithms. Students are introduced to the use of algorithms for sorting and classifying. They can use flow charts to do this. Algorithmic thinking is a design process and flow charts are used to show a sequence of steps and/or instructions and require decision making by the user or the inputs.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Web page
Keywords	lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Space
Topics	Computational thinking
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M7SP04 Design and create algorithms involving a sequence of steps and decisions that will sort and classify sets of shapes according to their attributes, and describe how the algorithms work
Numeracy progression	Understanding geometric properties (P4)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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