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Are these shapes congruent?

Students use a digital tool to determine if two shapes are congruent.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8
Audience	Student
Purpose	Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model
Keywords	digital tools
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Space
Topics	Angles and geometric reasoning
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M8SP01 Identify the conditions for congruence and similarity of triangles and explain the conditions for other sets of common shapes to be congruent or similar, including those formed by transformations AC9M8SP02 Establish properties of quadrilaterals using congruent triangles and angle properties, and solve related problems explaining reasoning
Numeracy progression	Understanding geometric properties (P6, P7) Proportional thinking (P6)
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Organisation	NSW Department of Education
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