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Paper, pencil and protractor
In this activity, students are asked to construct triangles with a given set of restrictions. This can be done as a group activity. After completing the constructions, students are asked to explain their findings.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P6, P7) Proportional thinking (P6)
- Publisher
- AAMT
- Copyright
- © 2014 The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) Inc. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- angle congruent
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