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Fearless frames
This task asks students to design the frame of a prism using a minimum amount of metal. The resource includes a lesson plan, rubric and sample of student work scored against the rubric.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8M02
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- Mathematics Assessment Resource Service
- Copyright
- ©2007-2015 Mathematics Assessment Resource Service,University of Nottingham. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0.
- Keywords
- volume surface area triangle prism
- Other terms
- capacity
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