Number sequence: Year 8 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Number sequence. Students are introduced to ‘real’ numbers and ‘irrational’ numbers. Take time to explain the real number system so that students understand that irrational numbers are part of the real number group.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Properties of number Place value
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
- lesson plans assessment task teaching strategies pedagogies Australian Curriculum learning from home misconceptions
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