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What is similarity?
The first of a series of lessons that explores the meaning of similarity and how a shape can be translated to prove they are similar. The following lessons demonstrate the shortcuts and rules for testing and proving similarity of plane shapes.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M9M03
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P7) Proportional thinking (P7) Understanding units of measurement (P10)
- Publisher
- Illustrative Mathematics
- Copyright
- © Open Up Resources/Illustrative Mathematics. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- transformation ratio triangle angle proof congruent scale factor enlargement transformation
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