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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">In Methods 1 we now teach Newton's bisection method for finding approximations of solutions.
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<div>It is best taught using Excel and is very similar to a binary search algorithm in SD.</div>
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<div>cheers</div>
<div> Gordon<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 28 July 2016 8:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 SofDev] Victorian Curriculum<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A Mathematics teacher has just approached me about the new content that is included in their text for 2017. It’s very interesting that they are including sorting, specifically a selection sort algorithm!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was straight into Sof Dev mode, flicking through the text and showing visualisations. Sounds like I will be a “special” guest in Year 8 Math next year.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone noticed other subject changes including a link to technology / algorithms?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Vijaya",sans-serif; color:#1C1C1C">David Clements</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:gray">Brentwood Secondary College</span></p>
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