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Congruence of plane figures
From the AMSI TIMES project, this resource explains the meaning of congruence and demonstrates the various proofs for triangles to be congruent. There are exercises and references too.
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| Year level(s) | Year 8 |
|---|---|
| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Content knowledge, Teaching resource, Student task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching |
| Keywords | Congruent, Quadrilateral, Side, Angle, Triangle, Transformation, Plane shape |
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 |
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) |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | AMSI |
| Copyright | © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0. |
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