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Three areas
This prompt shows a rectangle with a border, where both regions have the same area. Students explore the conditions for this to be possible. The resource includes the prompt, teacher notes, guided questions and extension prompts.
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| Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Assessment task, Extension, Student task, Teaching resource |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Explicit teaching, Feedback, Mathematics investigation |
| Keywords | area, equal, dimensions |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Measurement, Apply understanding, Build understanding, Algebra |
| Topics | Area, volume and surface area |
| AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMMG159
Establish the formulas for areas of rectangles, triangles and parallelograms, and use these in problem-solving
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| Organisation | Inquiry Maths |
| Copyright | © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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