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Coordinate planes and architecture
Students use the distance between points on a coordinate plane to calculate the perimeter of a polygon.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 6
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Position and location
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Positioning and locating (P5) Number and place value (P9)
- Publisher
- CK-12 Foundation
- Copyright
- © CK-12 Foundation. Free-for-education material.
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