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Perimeter and area
Here you will find a number of activities looking at perimeter and area for a variety of shapes including squares, rectangles and circles.
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| Year level(s) | Year 7 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching |
| Keywords | Area, Square, Triangle, Rectangle, Perimeter |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Measurement |
| Topics | Area, volume and surface area |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M7M01
Solve problems involving the area of triangles and parallelograms using established formulas and appropriate units |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P6)
Understanding units of measurement (P9) |
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| Organisation | GeoGebra |
| Copyright | © 2022 GeoGebra. Free-for-education material. |
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