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AC9M8M04 Year 8 Mathematics

AC9M8M04 – Year 8 Mathematics: null

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Measurement
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This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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.

Content Description

solve problems involving duration, including using 12- and 24-hour time across multiple time zones

Elaborations

  • 1 using digital tools to investigate time zones around the world and convert from one zone to another, such as time in Perth, Western Australia compared to Suva in Fiji or Toronto in Canada
  • 2 recognising the challenges of planning regular virtual meeting times for a company that has both international staff and staff within different states and territories, and the impact daylight savings has due to multiple time zones, explaining the mathematical language used to communicate current time such as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)+\(8\), AEST, ACST and AWST
  • 3 planning an international travel itinerary that covers destinations in different time zones across Asia

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