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Colouring triangles
Students explore ways of colouring a set of triangles so they make symmetrical patterns.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 4
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Transformation
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M4SP03
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P4)
- Publisher
- NRICH
- Copyright
- © Crown Copyright. Free-for-education material.
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