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Equal areas inquiry 2

This prompt shows a rectangle with a border, where both regions have the same area. Students explore the conditions for this to be possible. The resource includes the prompt, teacher notes, guided questions and extension prompts.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Assessment task, Extension, Student task, Teaching resource
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Explicit teaching, Feedback, Mathematics investigation
Keywords	area, equal, dimensions
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy
Strand and focus	Measurement, Apply understanding, Build understanding, Algebra
Topics	Area, volume and surface area
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M7M01 Solve problems involving the area of triangles and parallelograms using established formulas and appropriate units
Numeracy progression	Understanding geometric properties (P6) Understanding units of measurement (P9)
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Organisation	Inquiry Maths
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