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2-dimensional shapes inquiry

This sequence of lessons requires the use of formulas to solve problems involving the circumference and area of shapes. Students will work in teams to determine lines of symmetry of a rectangle compared to a square, while also determing whether a right angle is acute, obtuse or neither. The proceeding lessons focus on students developing claims to support their findings, which are accompanied by annotated student examples.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8
Audience	Student, Teacher
Purpose	Assessment task, Assessment advice, Additional learning support, Student task, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Feedback, Growth mindset, Mathematics investigation, Questioning, Metacognitive strategies, Worked examples
Keywords	angles, interior angles, polygons, circumferance, regular shapes, quadrilaterals, area, radius, diameter
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy
Strand and focus	Space, Measurement, Apply understanding, Build understanding
Topics	Angles and geometric reasoning, Area, volume and surface area, Operating with number, Pythagoras and trigonometry, Length, Shapes and objects
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M8M03 Solve problems involving the circumference and area of a circle using formulas and appropriate units
Numeracy progression	Understanding units of measurement (P9)
Copyright details
Organisation	Inquiry Maths
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