AC9M10SP03 Year 10 Mathematics

Content descriptor design, test and refine solutions to spatial problems using algorithms and digital tools; communicate and justify solutions

Elaborations

• • Elaboration designing and making scale models of three-dimensional objects using digital tools; for example, making components of a puzzle using a three-dimensional printer, planning and designing the puzzle using principles of tessellations
• • Elaboration applying a computational thinking approach to solving problems involving networks; for example, connectedness, coverage and weighted measures; taking different routes and choosing the most efficient route to take when travelling by car using virtual map software
• • Elaboration defining and decomposing spatial problems, creating and applying algorithms to generate solutions, evaluating and communicating solutions in terms of the problem; for example, designing a floor plan for a department store that limits congestion at key areas such as checkouts, changing rooms and popular sale items
• • Elaboration designing, creating and testing algorithms using pseudocode or flow charts for producing self-similar patterns; validating algorithms using a range of test cases to compare their output
• • Elaboration exploring geospatial technologies used by First Nations Australians’ communities to consider spatial problems including position and transformation