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The mirror game
This resource uses shapes made from centicubes to help students use reflections to make a pattern on a grid.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 3
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Transformation
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M3M05
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P3) Understanding units of measurement (P6)
- Publisher
- New Zealand Ministry of Education
- Copyright
- © New Zealand Ministry of Education. Creative Commons BY 3.0 NZ.
- Keywords
- two-dimensional
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