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Area, perimeter and volume: rectilinear shapes, triangles, parallelograms and cuboids
This guide provides a sequence of small steps for exploring and connecting perimeter, area and volume from using squared paper to explore the area of rectilinear shapes, triangles and parallelograms to revisiting volume and working with cubic units.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Questioning, Explicit teaching |
| Keywords | area, perimeter, explicit teaching |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Measurement, Number, Build understanding |
| Topics | Using units of measurement, Area, volume and surface area, Multiplication and division, Length, Multiples, factors and powers, Shapes and objects |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M6M02
Establish the formula for the area of a rectangle and use it to solve practical problems |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P8)
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| Organisation | White Rose Maths |
| Copyright | © 2021 White Rose Maths. Free-for-education material. |
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Finding the area of a rectangle
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Reasoning to find area
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Wrapping presents
A problem that provides a context to explore surface area and nets.
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