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Triangles
These lessons guide students to discover and then apply the formula for finding the area of a triangle, using the perpendicular height and base.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P6) Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- New Zealand Ministry of Education
- Copyright
- © New Zealand Ministry of Education. Creative Commons BY 3.0 NZ.
- Other terms
- base height
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