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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 6
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Using units of measurement
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M6M02
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P8)
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology
- Copyright
- © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- perimeter
- Other terms
- YuMi Deadly
- File type
- File size
- 0.4 MB
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