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Similarity: enlargements
This resource explains the concepts of similarity and enlargement.
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Year level(s) | Year 9 |
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Audience | Student |
Purpose | Student task, Home practice tasks |
Format | Web page |
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Worked examples |
Curriculum alignment |
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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)
Understanding units of measurement (P10) Proportional thinking (P7) |
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Organisation | AMSI |
Copyright | © Education Services Australia. Free-for-education material. |
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