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Alternate interior angles
Students complete a series of problems to explore why some angles are always equal.
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| Year level(s) | Year 7 |
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| Audience | Student |
| Purpose | Student task, Home practice tasks |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Worked examples |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Angles and geometric reasoning |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M7M04
Identify corresponding, alternate and co-interior relationships between angles formed when parallel lines are crossed by a transversal; use them to solve problems and explain reasons |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P6)
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| Organisation | Illustrative Mathematics |
| Copyright | © 2017-2019 by Open Up Resources. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
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