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Similar triangles
An explanation of the rules for triangles to be similar. The resource includes downloadable worksheets for students.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M9M03
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P7) Proportional thinking (P7) Understanding units of measurement (P10)
- Publisher
- AAMT
- Copyright
- © 2014 The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) Inc. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- transformation ratio angle proof congruent scale factor enlargement transformation
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