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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.
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| Year level(s) | Year 7 |
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| 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 |
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| 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)
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| Organisation | reSolve Maths by Inquiry |
| Copyright | © Australian Government Department of Education,Skills and Employment 2021. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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