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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Assessment tasks
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9MFSP01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P1)
- Publisher
- NRICH
- Copyright
- © 1997-2022 University of Cambridge. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- two-dimensional square rectangle triangle circle three-dimensional
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