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Discovering triangle congruence shortcuts
In this lesson sequence, students will work in pairs using construction to test ‘shortcuts’ to use when proving triangles congruent.
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Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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Audience | Teacher |
Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
Format | Web page |
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching |
Keywords | Congruent, Quadrilateral, Side, Angle, Triangle, Transformation, Plane shape |
Curriculum alignment |
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Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
Strand and focus | Space |
Topics | Angles and geometric reasoning |
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M8SP01
Identify the conditions for congruence and similarity of triangles and explain the conditions for other sets of common shapes to be congruent or similar, including those formed by transformations
AC9M8SP02
Establish properties of quadrilaterals using congruent triangles and angle properties, and solve related problems explaining reasoning |
Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P6, P7)
Proportional thinking (P6) |
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Copyright | © Jessica Uy. Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0. |
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