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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.
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| Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Assessment task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Feedback |
| Keywords | Volume, Surface area, Capacity, Triangular, Rectangular, Prism |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Measurement |
| Topics | Area, volume and surface area |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M8M02
Solve problems involving the volume and capacity of right prisms using appropriate units |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P9)
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| Organisation | Mathematics Assessment Resource Service |
| Copyright | ©2007-2015 Mathematics Assessment Resource Service,University of Nottingham. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0. |
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