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Delivering water
Students calculate their own water use and the water use, distances and surface areas involved in accessing water, and volumes of various water-storage containers for people in developing countries.
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| Year level(s) | Year 9, Year 10 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Mathematics investigation |
| Keywords | Surface area, Volume, Circumference, Pi, Radius, Diameter, Circle, Net, Cylinder |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Measurement |
| Topics | Area, volume and surface area |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M9M01
Solve problems involving the volume and surface area of right prisms and cylinders using appropriate units
AC9M10M01
Solve problems involving the surface area and volume of composite objects using appropriate units |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P9)
Understanding geometric properties (P7) |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Global Education |
| Copyright | © Commonwealth of Australia 2012. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 AU. |
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