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Making a picture
Find out about students’ understanding of shapes and patterns as they create a picture from a variety of coloured shapes.
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| Year level(s) | Foundation |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Assessment task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Concrete Representational Abstract model |
| Keywords | 2D, squares and rectangles, triangles, circles, 3D |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Shapes and objects |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9MFSP01
Sort, name and create familiar shapes; recognise and describe familiar shapes within objects in the environment, giving reasons |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P1)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | NRICH |
| Copyright | © 1997-2022 University of Cambridge. Free-for-education material. |
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