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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 1
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M1SP01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P2)
- Publisher
- NRICH
- Copyright
- © 1997-2021 University of Cambridge. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- two-dimensional
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