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Volume of prisms
From the AMSI ‘Supporting Australian Mathematics Project’, this resource gives detailed explanations for teachers and students of the curriculum content, worked examples and assessment questions. This resource focuses on the volume of rectangular prisms and the units of capacity.
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| Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Content knowledge |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching |
| Keywords | volume, surface area, capacity, triangular, rectangular, prism |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Measurement |
| Topics | Area, volume and surface area |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M8M02
Solve problems involving the volume and capacity of right prisms using appropriate units |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P9)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | AMSI |
| Copyright | © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0. |
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