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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
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

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)

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NSW Department of Education

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