Supersize it
Students transform and enlarge shapes using a grid.
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| Year level(s) | Year 5 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Concrete Representational Abstract model, Culturally responsive pedagogies |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Geometry, Build understanding, Apply understanding |
| Topics | Angles and geometric reasoning |
| AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMMG114
Describe translations, reflections and rotations of two-dimensional shapes. Identify line and rotational symmetries
ACMMG115
Apply the enlargement transformation to familiar two dimensional shapes and explore the properties of the resulting image compared with the original
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| National numeracy learning progression |
Understanding geometric properties
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UGP2
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Queensland University of Technology |
| Copyright | © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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