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reSolve: Spatial reasoning – right angles
In this sequence of two lessons, students create and identify right angles. In the first lesson, students use popsicle sticks to create right angles and investigate how many right angles can be created for a given number of sticks. Students then go on to create eight-sided polygons with different combinations of internal right angles. Each lesson is outlined in detail including curriculum links, vocabulary, materials needed, sample answers, discussion points and student resources. This sequence is part of the reSolve: Mathematics by Inquiry program.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 6
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M6M04
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P5) Understanding units of measurement (P8)
- Publisher
- reSolve Maths by Inquiry
- Copyright
- © Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment 2021. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- angle shape
- Other terms
- polygons
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