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Tangrams 3 – reimagining wholes
Return to the original square made up of tangram pieces and ask students: What if the square is worth 1 whole? What are each of the other pieces worth?
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 6
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Number Space
- Topic
- Fractions Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Students Teachers
- Format
- Video
- Numeracy progression
- Additive strategies (P9) Interpreting fractions (P7, P8) Multiplicative strategies (P9) Proportional thinking (P2) Understanding money (P8)
- Publisher
- NSW Department of Education
- Copyright
- © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2020 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.
- Keywords
- fraction square problem solving reasoning
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