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AMSI: Circle geometry
This module from the AMSI 'The Improving Mathematics Education in Schools (TIMES) project' is for teachers who wish to consolidate their content knowledge on the geometry of circles, including proofs. There are sections that provide history and context for the topic, as well as exercises and examples of how to present and explain the concepts to students.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Planning Curriculum
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning
- Audience
- Teachers School leaders
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8M03
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- AMSI
- Copyright
- © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0.
- Keywords
- angle chord
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