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Are these shapes congruent?

Students use a digital tool to determine if two shapes are congruent.

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Year level(s) Year 8
Audience Student
Purpose Student task, Home practice tasks
Format Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model
Keywords Digital tools

Curriculum alignment

Strand and focus Space
Topics Angles and geometric reasoning
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M8SP01
Identify the conditions for congruence and similarity of triangles and explain the conditions for other sets of common shapes to be congruent or similar, including those formed by transformations

AC9M8SP02
Establish properties of quadrilaterals using congruent triangles and angle properties, and solve related problems explaining reasoning

Numeracy progression Understanding geometric properties (P6, P7)
Proportional thinking (P6)

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NSW Department of Education

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