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Teaching about angles
This collection of practical tasks is designed to help students understand angles.
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| Year level(s) | Year 3, Year 4 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Assessment advice |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Mathematics investigation, Explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Transformation, Angles and geometric reasoning |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M3M05
Identify angles as measures of turn and compare angles with right angles in everyday situations
AC9M4M04
Estimate and compare angles using angle names including acute, obtuse, straight angle, reflex and revolution, and recognise their relationship to a right angle |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P3, P4)
Understanding units of measurement (P6) |
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| Organisation | NSW Department of Education |
| Copyright | © State of NSW, Department of Education and Training, Professional Support and Curriculum Directorate 2003. Free-for-education material. |
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