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Finding cylinder dimensions
These tasks build on students’ knowledge of prisms and circles to develop their understanding and ability to solve problems involving the volume a cylinder.
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| Year level(s) | Year 9 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching |
| Keywords | Surface area, Volume, Circumference, Pi, Radius, Diameter, Circle, Net, Cylinder |
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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 |
AC9M9M01
Solve problems involving the volume and surface area of right prisms and cylinders using appropriate units |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P9)
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| Organisation | Illustrative Mathematics |
| Copyright | © Open Up Resources/Illustrative Mathematics. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
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