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Four triangles puzzle

Use this task to develop students' understanding of properties of squares and triangles, as well as encouraging visualisation skills.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 1
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Mathematics investigation
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Space
Topics	Shapes and objects
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M1SP01 Make, compare and classify familiar shapes; recognise familiar shapes and objects in the environment, identifying the similarities and differences between them
Numeracy progression	Understanding geometric properties (P2)
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