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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks Assessment advice Disability and inclusive education Student activities Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Space Measurement
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning Area, volume and surface area Operating with number Pythagoras and trigonometry Length Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Students Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8M03
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- Inquiry Maths
- Copyright
- © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- angle interior angle quadrilateral radius diameter
- Other terms
- regular shape polygon
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