Building with geometry (16 lessons)

In this sequence of 16 lessons, students use formulae, diagrams, and reasoning to calculate, solve, and prove geometric properties involving 3D shapes and trigonometry.

Additional details

Year level(s) Year 10
Audience Teacher
Purpose Teaching resource
Format Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Explicit teaching, Mathematics investigation
Keywords summative assessment, depression, angles of elevation, Pythagoras’ theorem, composite objects, volume, surface area

Curriculum alignment

Curriculum connections Numeracy
Strand and focus Measurement
Topics Using units of measurement, Angles and geometric reasoning, Pythagoras and trigonometry
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M10M03

Solve practical problems applying Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry of right-angled triangles, including problems involving direction and angles of elevation and depression


AC9M10M01
Solve problems involving the surface area and volume of composite objects using appropriate units

Numeracy progression Understanding geometric properties (P7)
Understanding units of measurement (P10)

Copyright details

Organisation

Victoria State Government Department of Education

Copyright

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