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Tangrams: exploring quadrilaterals

Uses tangram pieces to explore examples and non-examples of quadrilaterals. Challenges students to keep exploring by creating different quadrilaterals with different numbers of tangram pieces.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 1
Audience	Student, Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Video
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Targeted teaching
Keywords	triangles, trapezium, parallelogram, square, quadrilateral, vertices, examples, non-examples, problem-solving, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Geometry, Build understanding
Topics	Shapes and objects
AC: Mathematics content descriptions	ACMMG022 Recognise and classify familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects using obvious features
National numeracy learning progression	Understanding geometric properties - UGP1, UGP2
Copyright details
Organisation	NSW Department of Education
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