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Area vs perimeter
Explores and applies concepts including perimeter and area by challenging students to build various rectangles with equivalent area.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 3
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Number Measurement Space
- Topic
- Shapes and objects Using units of measurement
- Audience
- Students Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M3M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P6)
- Publisher
- NSW Department of Education
- Copyright
- © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2020 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.
- Keywords
- problem solving
- Other terms
- pentominoes
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