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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 1
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Students Teachers
- Format
- Video
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M1SP01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P2)
- Publisher
- NSW Department of Education
- Copyright
- © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2020 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.
- Keywords
- parallelogram triangle trapezium
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