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Measuring circles
Students explore the radius, diameter and area of circles and learn how to apply this knowledge to solve problems. (Note: some of the units used are imperial, not metric.)
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7 Year 8
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- Illustrative Mathematics
- Copyright
- © 2017-2019 Open Up Resources. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
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