Geometric reasoning (7 lessons)
In this sequence of 7 lessons, students use angle and side conditions to identify similar shapes, apply scale factors, and solve problems involving transformations and enlargements.
Additional details |
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| Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching, Worked examples, Questioning, Mathematics investigation |
| Keywords | summative assessment, problem solving, scale factor, identifying similar shapes, sss conditions, aa conditions, similarity of shapes |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Angles and geometric reasoning |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M8SP02
Establish properties of quadrilaterals using congruent triangles and angle properties, and solve related problems explaining reasoning
AC9M8SP01
Identify the conditions for congruence and similarity of triangles and explain the conditions for other sets of common shapes to be congruent or similar, including those formed by transformations |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P7)
Proportional thinking (P6) |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Victoria State Government Department of Education |
| Copyright | © State Government of Victoria. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
