AC9M10M04
Official content description
identify the impact of measurement errors on the accuracy of results in practical contexts
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What Year 10 Maths students should achieve
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- Students make and test conjectures involving functions and relations using digital tools.
- Students design and conduct simulations involving conditional probability, using digital tools.
- They apply conditional probability to solve problems involving compound events.
- Students compare the distribution of continuous numerical data using various displays, and discuss distributions in terms of centre, spread, shape and outliers.
- Students apply Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry to solve practical problems involving right-angled triangles.
- They solve measurement problems involving surface area and volume of composite objects.
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Taught before · Year 9
- AC9M9M01solve problems involving the volume and surface area of right prisms and cylinders using appropriate units
- AC9M9M02solve problems involving very small and very large measurements, time scales and intervals expressed in scientific notation
- AC9M9M03solve spatial problems, applying angle properties, scale, similarity, Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry in right-angled triangles
Other Year 10 Measurement codes
- AC9M10M01solve problems involving the surface area and volume of composite objects using appropriate units
- AC9M10M02interpret and use logarithmic scales in applied contexts involving small and large quantities and change
- AC9M10M03solve practical problems applying Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry of right-angled triangles, including problems involving direction and angles of elevation and depression
- AC9M10M05use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving proportion and scaling of objects; formulate problems and interpret solutions in terms of the situation; evaluate and modify models as necessary, and report assumptions, methods and findings
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