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Perimeter, area and volume
This guidance document from NCETM discusses some of the core concepts of geometry. Section 6.2 (pages 18–25) focuses on common misconceptions students may hold when talking about circles and how to address these.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7M03
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- NCETM
- Copyright
- © Crown Copyright. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- circumference pi (Ï€) diameter radius
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