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Converting metric units
Use this to have students practise converting units.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- GeoGebra
- Copyright
- © 2022 GeoGebra. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- prism volume area
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