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Misunderstandings
A number of articles and activities that address misconceptions and misunderstandings about mathematical proof students may have, given this is a difficult concept.
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| Year level(s) | Year 10 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Content knowledge |
| Format | Web page |
| Keywords | Congruence, Geometry, Reasoning, Angles, Proof |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking |
| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Pythagoras and trigonometry |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M10SP01
Apply deductive reasoning to proofs involving shapes in the plane and use theorems to solve spatial problems |
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| Organisation | AAMT |
| Copyright | © 2014 The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) Inc. Free-for-education material. |
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