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Making sense of the formula
Students complete a task of recording dimensions and calculating the volume of shapes made with centicubes.
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| Year level(s) | Year 5 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Measurement |
| Topics | Mass and capacity, Area, volume and surface area |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M5M01
Choose appropriate metric units when measuring the length, mass and capacity of objects; use smaller units or a combination of units to obtain a more accurate measure |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P8)
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| Organisation | BetterLesson |
| Copyright | © Erin Doughty. Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0. |
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