Tag: quadratics

The previous A-Crash consisted of everything we could find in the Daft Curriculum on the algebraic treatment of polynomials and polynomial equations. This companion A-Crash consists of everything we could find in the Year 10 draft on the same material. 

CONTENT (Year 10)

expand and factorise expressions and apply exponent laws involving products, quotients and powers of variables. Apply to solve equations algebraically

ELABORATIONS

reviewing and connecting exponent laws of numerical expressions with positive and negative integer exponents to exponent laws involving variables

using the distributive law and the exponent laws to expand and factorise algebraic expressions

explaining the relationship between factorisation and expansion

applying knowledge of exponent laws to algebraic terms, and simplifying algebraic expressions using both positive and negative integral exponents to solve equations algebraically

CONTENT (Year 10 Optional Content)

numerical/tabular, graphical and algebraic representations of quadratic functions and their transformations in order to reason about the solutions of

 ELABORATIONS

connecting the expanded and transformed representations

deriving and using the quadratic formula and discriminant to identify the roots of a quadratic function

identifying what can be known about the graph of a quadratic function by considering the coefficients and the discriminant to assist sketching by hand

solving equations and interpreting solutions graphically

recognising that irrational roots of quadratic equations of a single real variable occur in conjugate pairs

Well, the plan to post each day lasted exactly one day.* We have an excuse,** but we won’t make excuses. We’ll try to do better.

This A-Crash consists of two Content-Elaboration combos for Year 9 Algebra.

CONTENT

expand and factorise algebraic expressions including simple quadratic expressions

ELABORATIONS

recognising the application of the distributive law to algebraic expressions

using manipulatives such as algebra tiles or an area model to expand or factorise algebraic expressions with readily identifiable binomial factors, for example, or

recognising the relationship between expansion and factorisation and identifying algebraic factors in algebraic expressions including the use of digital tools to systematically explore factorisation from where one of or is fixed and the other coefficient is systematically varied

exploring the connection between exponent form and expanded form for positive integer exponents using all of the exponent laws with constants and variables

applying the exponent laws to positive constants and variables using positive integer exponents 

investigating factorising non-monic trinomials using algebra tiles or strategies such as the area model or pattern recognition

CONTENT

graph simple non-linear relations using graphing software where appropriate and solve linear and quadratic equations involving a single variable graphically, numerically and algebraically using inverse operations and digital tools as appropriate

 ELABORATIONS

graphing quadratic and other non-linear functions using digital tools and comparing what is the same and what is different between these different functions and their respective graphs

using graphs to determine the solutions to linear and quadratic equations

representing and solving linear and quadratic equations algebraically using a sequence of inverse operations and comparing these to graphical solutions

graphing percentages of illumination of moon phases in relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ understandings that describe the different phases of the moon

 

*) Luckily, 1 is a Fibonacci number.

**) “Burkard, please put down the whip.”