Patterns and number facts: Year 8 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Patterns and number facts. Students bring together knowledge and skills on linear functions and relations and experiment with digital tools to investigate systematic variation of parameters to show the effect. Students cement their understanding of the 'm' and the 'c' in the traditional linear function y = mx + c by observing visual transformations.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8
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	Algebra
Topics	Patterns and algebra
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M8A04 Experiment with linear functions and relations using digital tools, making and testing conjectures and generalising emerging patterns
Numeracy progression	Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P7)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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