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Making patterns
Use this resource to create structured lessons for students to identify and create patterns that involve translation, reflection and rotation.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 3
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Transformation
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M3M05
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P3) Understanding units of measurement (P6)
- Publisher
- New Zealand Ministry of Education
- Copyright
- © New Zealand Ministry of Education. Creative Commons BY 3.0 NZ.
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