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Congruent triangles
Students use a digital tool to explore changing two similar triangles so the two triangles are congruent.
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| Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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| Audience | Student |
| Purpose | Student task, Home practice tasks |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model |
| Keywords | Digital tools |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Angles and geometric reasoning |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M8SP01
Identify the conditions for congruence and similarity of triangles and explain the conditions for other sets of common shapes to be congruent or similar, including those formed by transformations |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P7)
Proportional thinking (P6) |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | NSW Department of Education |
| Copyright | © State of New South Wales (Department of Education),2018. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
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