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Attractive rotations
Students create attractive images by rotating shapes through multiples of 90 degrees, 30 degrees or 72 degrees.
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Year level(s) | Year 5 |
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Audience | Teacher |
Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
Format | Web page |
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Differentiated teaching, Mathematics investigation, Explicit teaching |
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Strand and focus | Space |
Topics | Transformation |
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M8SP03
Describe the position and location of objects in 3 dimensions in different ways, including using a three-dimensional coordinate system with the use of dynamic geometric software and other digital tools |
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Organisation | NRICH |
Copyright | © 1997-2022 University of Cambridge. Free-for-education material. |
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