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Similar triangles
An explanation of the rules for triangles to be similar. The resource includes downloadable worksheets for students.
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| Year level(s) | Year 9 |
|---|---|
| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Content knowledge, Teaching resource, Student task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Mathematics investigation |
| Keywords | transformation, ratio, triangle, angle, proof, congruent, similar, scale factor, enlargement |
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 |
AC9M9M03
Solve spatial problems, applying angle properties, scale, similarity, Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry in right-angled triangles |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P7)
Proportional thinking (P7) Understanding units of measurement (P10) |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | AAMT |
| Copyright | © 2014 The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) Inc. Free-for-education material. |
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