Content description VC2M7N10

Mathematics Version 2.0 / Level 7 / Number

Content description

use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving rational numbers and percentages, including financial contexts such as ‘best buys’; formulate problems, choosing representations and efficient calculation strategies, designing algorithms and using digital tools as appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation, justifying choices made about the representation

Elaborations

modelling additive situations involving positive and negative quantities; for example, a lift travelling up and down floors in a high-rise apartment where the ground floor is interpreted as zero, or in geography when determining altitude above and below sea level
modelling contexts involving proportion, such as the proportion of students attending the school disco, proportion of the bottle cost to the recycling refund, proportion of the school site that is green space, 55% of Year 7 students attended the end of term function or 23% of the school population voted ‘yes’ to a change of school uniform; and interpreting and communicating answers in terms of the context of the situation
modelling financial problems involving profit and loss, credits and debits, gains and losses; for example, holding a fundraising sausage sizzle and determining whether the event made a percentage profit or loss
finding the sum of a set of consecutive numbers using a loop structure
constructing geometric patterns such as a honeycomb, using dynamic geometry functionality
using mathematical modelling to investigate the proportion of land mass/area of Aboriginal Peoples’ traditional grain belt compared with Australia’s current grain belt

Code

VC2M7N10

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