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Measurement and geometry
From the AMSI ‘Supporting Australian Mathematics Project’, this resource gives detailed explanations for teachers and students of the curriculum content, worked examples and assessment questions. This resource focuses on the volume of a rectangular prism and how the units of volume and capacity are related.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7M02
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- AMSI
- Copyright
- © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0.
- Keywords
- length units cube
- Other terms
- prism formula
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