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Areas of rectangles
In this unit, students learn to use the multiplication formula to find the area of a rectangle. Using proportional reasoning, students explore what happens to the area when the length and/or height of a rectangle is doubled.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 5
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Length Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M5M02
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P7)
- Publisher
- New Zealand Ministry of Education
- Copyright
- © New Zealand Ministry of Education. Creative Commons BY 3.0 NZ.
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