Byram Hills Central School District

This information has been taken directly from the Accelerate U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12 Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information in this document has been changed.

Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Three Levels

Standard 6 - Interconnectedness: Common Themes - Commencement

Students will understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning.

Systems Thinking

1. Through systems thinking, people can recognize the commonalities that exist among all systems and how parts of a system interrelate and combine to perform specific functions.

Students:

     explain how positive feedback and negative feedback have opposite effects on system outputs.
     use an input-process-output-feedback diagram to model and compare the behavior of natural and engineered systems.
     define boundary conditions when doing systems analysis to determine what influences a system and how it behaves.

This is evident, for example, when students:

describe how negative feedback is used to control loudness automatically in a stereo system and how positive feedback from loudspeaker to microphone results in louder and louder squeals.