Measurement of error: Year 9 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 9 is for the topic of Measurement of error. Students make considered estimations of measurements. They use percentages to calculate the size of errors in different circumstances. They estimate the accuracy of given measurements and the effects of rounding.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Estimation Using units of measurement
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M9M04
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P10) Proportional thinking (P6)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
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