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Finding area by decomposing and rearranging
A lesson showing how to decompose shapes to find their areas.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 6 Year 7
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Length Using units of measurement Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P6) Understanding units of measurement (P8, P9)
- Publisher
- Illustrative Mathematics
- Copyright
- © 2017-2019 by Open Up Resources. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
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