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Construction of prisms and pyramids
In this unit, students make and investigate a variety of 3D objects (polyhedra) and record their properties.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Shapes and objects |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M6SP01
Compare the parallel cross-sections of objects and recognise their relationships to right prisms |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P5)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | AMSI |
| Copyright | © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0. |
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