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Efficient cutting
A student challenge task that requires students to use a single sheet of A4 paper to find which dimensions make a cylinder with the greatest volume.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Students
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M9M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- NRICH
- Copyright
- © 1997-2021 University of Cambridge. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- digital tools
- Other terms
- GeoGebra
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