Algorithms: Year 8 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Algorithms. Students begin to design, create and test algorithms that involve a sequence of steps that identify congruency or similarity of shapes. They describe how algorithms work through classifying and distinguishing between similar and congruent triangles.
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Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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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 |
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Strand and focus | Space |
Topics | Computational thinking |
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M8SP04
Design, create and test algorithms involving a sequence of steps and decisions that identify congruency or similarity of shapes, and describe how the algorithm works |
Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P7)
Proportional thinking (P6) |
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Organisation | Commonwealth of Australia |
Copyright | © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated |
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