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The Geometer's warehouse
This website has been developed to provide a range of activities that demonstrate and explore geometric properties, based on the NSW curriculum. It covers a wide range of topics from the properties of geometric figures, angle relationships, Pythagoras' theorem, trigonometry and circle geometry.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10
- Purpose
- Student activities Teaching resource
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning Pythagoras and trigonometry
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Interactive
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7M04 AC9M7M05 AC9M7SP02 AC9M7M03 AC9M8SP01 AC9M8SP02 AC9M8M06 AC9M9M03 AC9M10M03
- Numeracy progression
- Proportional thinking (P6, P7) Understanding geometric properties (P4, P6, P7) Understanding units of measurement (P9, P10)
- Publisher
- NSW Department of Education
- Copyright
- © State of New South Wales (Department of Education),2021. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- angle Pythagoras's theorem circle
- Other terms
- trigonometry
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