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Perplexing perimeters
Students construct and use their own rulers to develop a sense of the size of a centimetre and a metre as they measure perimeters.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 3
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Using units of measurement
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M3M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P6)
- Publisher
- New Zealand Ministry of Education
- Copyright
- © New Zealand Ministry of Education. Creative Commons BY 3.0 NZ.
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