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Alternate interior angles: preparation
This is the first of a series of lessons that explore angles and parallel lines using dynamic geometry. The resource includes lesson plans, worked examples and practice questions.
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| Year level(s) | Year 7 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching |
| Keywords | Angles, Parallel, Co-interior, Alternate, Triangle, Interior |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Angles and geometric reasoning |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M7M04
Identify corresponding, alternate and co-interior relationships between angles formed when parallel lines are crossed by a transversal; use them to solve problems and explain reasons
AC9M7M05
Demonstrate that the interior angle sum of a triangle in the plane is 180° and apply this to determine the interior angle sum of other shapes and the size of unknown angles |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P6)
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| Organisation | Illustrative Mathematics |
| Copyright | © Open Up Resources/Illustrative Mathematics. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
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