Title: Analyze how a product works, using mathematical and scientific concepts.
Course: Technology Foundations (21003-36) > Section: Analyzing Consumer Products

Analysis may include the following:

- Determining the purpose/use of the product
- Identifying the basic features of the product
- Understanding how the product works using the systems model
- Determining whether a product meets its advertised specifications through testing and documenting results
- Determining whether a product meets other needs
- Determining the underlying mathematical and scientific principles such as volume, area, shape, conversion of energy, conduction, resistance, heat

Process/Skill Questions:

- What basic scientific knowledge was necessary for the telephone to be invented?
- What basic mathematical and scientific knowledge was necessary for the computer to be invented?
- What basic mathematical and scientific knowledge was necessary for the development of the automobile engine?