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Making maths: Snowflakes
A student task that shows how to fold and cut paper to make a model snowflake, demonstrating six lines of symmetry.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 4
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Transformation
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M4SP03
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P4)
- Publisher
- NRICH
- Copyright
- © Crown Copyright. Free-for-education material.
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