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Shady symmetry

Students work out how many different symmetrical shapes they can make by shading triangles or squares.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 5
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Differentiated teaching, Mathematics investigation, Explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Space
Topics	Transformation
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M5SP03 Describe and perform translations, reflections and rotations of shapes, using dynamic geometric software where appropriate; recognise what changes and what remains the same, and identify any symmetries
Numeracy progression	Understanding geometric properties (P5)
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