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The big picture

Students enlarge a figure to a given scale. This activity uses the grid method of enlargement.

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Year level(s) Year 9
Audience Teacher
Purpose Teaching resource, Student task
Format Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Differentiated teaching, Mathematics investigation, Explicit teaching
Keywords proportional reasoning

Curriculum alignment

Strand and focus Space
Topics Transformation
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M9SP02
Apply the enlargement transformation to shapes and objects using dynamic geometry software as appropriate; identify and explain aspects that remain the same and those that change

Numeracy progression Proportional thinking (P7)
Understanding geometric properties (P7)

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