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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 |
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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 |
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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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Organisation | NSW Department of Education |
Copyright | © State of New South Wales (Department of Education),2018. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
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