<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I think it is probably the latter, but I would define all three terms.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Laurie</div><div class="">PVGC</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 15 Dec 2015, at 10:50 AM, Mark <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" class="">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Maybe someone can help with this, or it might require Paula.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">In SD U4O1 KK2 it refers to "<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" class="">uses of data structures to organise and
manipulate data, including associative arrays (or dictionaries or hash tables)"</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" class="">I'm not sure how to interpret the 'or's after 'including'. Does it mean"</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" class="">- dictionaries and hash tables are synonyms for associative arrays?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" class="">- we may choose between </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:15.3333px" class="">dictionaries and hash tables and associative arrays?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:15.3333px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:15.3333px" class="">Neither of those makes much sense. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:15.3333px" class="">What does it mean in terms of teaching KK?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:15.3333px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:15.3333px" class="">Regards</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:15.3333px" class="">Mark</span></div><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Mark Kelly</span><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank" class="">mark@vceit.com</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://vceit.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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