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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks Student activities Teaching resource
- Strand
- Measurement Algebra
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P6) Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- Inquiry Maths
- Copyright
- © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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