BOSTES | Board of Studies Teaching & Educational Standards NSW

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  • Can-do Trigonometry
  • Using Histograms and Polygons
  • Midpoint
  • Best Airfare Deals
  • Probability
  • Successive Discounts
    • Additional Information
  • Draw the Graph to Fit the Story
  • Similar? Congruent?
  • The Pyramid of Giza
  • Surds
  • Graphs of Relationships
  • Simultaneous Equations
  • Describing Travel Graphs
  • Surface Area and Volume
  • Applications of Simple and Compound Interest
• Areas for Assessment

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1. Years 9-10
2. Mathematics
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4. Successive Discounts
5. Additional Information

Additional Information

Guidelines for marking

The following guidelines for marking show one approach to assigning a value to a student’s work. Other approaches may be used that better suit the reporting process of the school. Categories, marks, grades, visual representations or individual comments/notations may all be useful.

Range	Students in this range:
High	generate appropriate examples to demonstrate both discount situations provide clear explanations and accurate calculations with an appropriate conclusion
Satisfactory	generate appropriate examples to demonstrate both discount situations
Progressing	correctly perform at least one calculation involving percentage discounts.

Feedback

Students will receive:

• possible prompt questions related to the assessment Activity to assist their engagement
• written feedback on individual responses in relation to the calculation of successive discounts
• specific advice about strategies to further consolidate knowledge, skills and understanding, and suggestions for completing related additional tasks
• oral feedback (to the class and individuals) related to the overall understanding of the concepts and misconceptions about the mathematical ideas.