Route Optimizer standards and alignment

• Science and Engineering Practices: computational thinking, modeling, repeated comparison, and evidence-based explanation.
• Crosscutting Concepts: systems, optimization, stability and change, and the role of constraints in shaping outcomes.
• Algorithmic literacy: distinguishing heuristic improvement from exhaustive proof of optimality.

Route Optimizer is most useful when learners compare repeated runs, state model limits honestly, and revise claims when a favored setting does not generalize. That makes it a good companion to the broader Scientific Virtues materials.