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Practice with protractors
A direct instructional approach lesson focusing on students using a protractor to measure various-sized angles of alphabet letters that make up their name.
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| Year level(s) | Year 5 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching |
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| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Angles and geometric reasoning |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M5M04
Estimate, construct and measure angles in degrees, using appropriate tools including a protractor, and relate these measures to angle names |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P7)
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| Organisation | BetterLesson |
| Copyright | © Melissa Romano. Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0. |
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