AC9M7A03 Year 7 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 Mathematics provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

solve one-variable linear equations with natural number solutions; verify the solution by substitution

Elaborations

• 1 recognising that solving an equation is a process of determining a value that makes the equation true; using substitution to determine whether a given number is a solution to an equation or not
• 2 solving equations using concrete materials, the balance model, and backtracking, explaining the process
• 3 solving linear equations such as \(3x+7=19\) algebraically, and verifying the solution by substitution

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