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Tangrams 2 – investigating fractions
Use tangram pieces to explore various maths ideas such as fractions and area. This task challenges students to prove their observations.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 3 Year 4
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Number Space
- Topic
- Fractions Shapes and objects Using units of measurement
- Audience
- Students Teachers
- Format
- Video
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting fractions (P5)
- Publisher
- NSW Department of Education
- Copyright
- © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2020 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.
- Keywords
- square triangle parallelogram halves quarters reasoning problem solving
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