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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 6
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M6SP01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P5)
- Publisher
- AMSI
- Copyright
- © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0.
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