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Fencing the yard

Students use graph paper, geoboards and elastics to create shapes and find their area and perimeter. They investigate, model and make predications about how areas and perimeters change as we change a shape.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Concrete Representational Abstract model, Culturally responsive pedagogies
Keywords	RAMR, YuMi Deadly Mathematics
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Measurement, Build understanding
Topics	Using units of measurement
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M6M02 Establish the formula for the area of a rectangle and use it to solve practical problems
Numeracy progression	Understanding units of measurement (P8)
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Organisation	Queensland University of Technology
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