AC9M8SP04 Year 8 Mathematics

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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 listing the properties or criteria necessary to determine if shapes are similar or congruent
• 2 using the conditions for congruence of triangles and similarity of triangles to develop a sorting algorithm; for example, creating a flow chart
• 3 evaluating algorithms for accuracy in classifying and distinguishing between similar and congruent triangles

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