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Synchronised swim shapes
Students apply their understanding of geometry to design and describe shapes and formations as well as the transformations that map one formation onto another.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Differentiated teaching, Mathematics investigation, Explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Transformation |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M6SP03
Recognise and use combinations of transformations to create tessellations and other geometric patterns, using dynamic geometric software where appropriate |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P5)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | nzmaths |
| Copyright | © New Zealand Government. Free-for-education material. |
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