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Enlargement
A series of lessons designed to build and extend student knowledge on how shapes are transformed and enlarged using various scale factors. A variety of support material is provided to assist with teaching and scaffolding the lessons. The inquiry is structured around student questions and worked examples, and is designed to encourage students to work collaboratively to build mathematical knowledge and to extend themselves. Students are provided with an assessment task where they have the option to choose between three inquiry questions. Students then use their prior knowledge from previous lessons to work through their chosen question. Additionally, downloadable resources are provided to assist with teaching the topic.
Additional details |
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| Year level(s) | Year 9 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Assessment advice, Assessment task, Extension, Planning support, Student task, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Worked examples, Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Feedback, Mathematics investigation, Metacognitive strategies, Questioning, Structuring lessons |
| Keywords | enlargements (postive and negative), transformations (rotation, translation, reflection), scale factor, linear, area scale factor |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | English, Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Space, Measurement, Apply understanding, Build understanding |
| Topics | Proportion, rates and ratios, Shapes and objects, Angles and geometric reasoning, Position and location |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M9M03
Solve spatial problems, applying angle properties, scale, similarity, Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry in right-angled triangles |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P10)
Understanding geometric properties (P7) Proportional thinking (P7) |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Inquiry Maths |
| Copyright | © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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