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Wallpaper
A task designed to help students understand the meaning of area by challenging students to arrange pieces of wallpaper in order of size and then explain their decisions.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 2
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Using units of measurement
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M2M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P3)
- Publisher
- NRICH
- Copyright
- © 1997-2022 University of Cambridge. Free-for-education material.
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