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Estimating angles

Teaching notes to support the use of an interactive task that enables students to estimate the amount of turn (angle).

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 4, Year 5
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Concrete Representational Abstract model, Mathematics investigation
Keywords	Digital tools
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Space
Topics	Angles and geometric reasoning
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M4M04 Estimate and compare angles using angle names including acute, obtuse, straight angle, reflex and revolution, and recognise their relationship to a right angle AC9M5M04 Estimate, construct and measure angles in degrees, using appropriate tools including a protractor, and relate these measures to angle names
Numeracy progression	Understanding geometric properties (P4) Understanding units of measurement (P7)
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