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Teacher guide: Year 6 area and perimeter
A guide for teaching Year 6 and Year 7 students about area and perimeter. It includes activities targeting area of parallelograms, area of triangles, comparing the perimeter and area of different shapes and transformations involving scale factor.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P6) Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- NCETM
- Copyright
- © Crown Copyright. Free-for-education material.
- Other terms
- teaching guide evidence based
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