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reSolve: Area of a circle

A series of activities that investigates the area of a circle using visualisation and previous knowledge of area.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Content knowledge, Teaching resource
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Mathematics investigation
Keywords	circle, circumference, pi, area, diameter, radius
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy
Strand and focus	Space
Topics	Angles and geometric reasoning
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M7M03 Describe the relationship between π and the features of circles including the circumference, radius and diameter
Numeracy progression	Understanding units of measurement (P9)
Copyright details
Organisation	reSolve Maths by Inquiry
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