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Shapes and circles
This sequence of lessons requires the use of formulas to solve problems involving the circumference and area of shapes. Students will work in teams to determine lines of symmetry of a rectangle compared to a square, while also determing whether a right angle is acute, obtuse or neither. The proceeding lessons focus on students developing claims to support their findings, which are accompanied by annotated student examples.
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Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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Audience | Student, Teacher |
Purpose | Assessment task, Assessment advice, Additional learning support, Student task, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
Format | Downloadable resources |
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Feedback, Growth mindset, Mathematics investigation, Questioning, Metacognitive strategies, Worked examples |
Keywords | angles, interior angles, polygons, circumferance, regular shapes, quadrilaterals, area, radius, diameter |
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Curriculum connections | English, Numeracy |
Strand and focus | Space, Measurement, Apply understanding, Build understanding |
Topics | Angles and geometric reasoning, Area, volume and surface area, Operating with number, Pythagoras and trigonometry, Length, Shapes and objects |
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M8M03
Solve problems involving the circumference and area of a circle using formulas and appropriate units |
Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P9)
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Copyright details |
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Organisation | Inquiry Maths |
Copyright | © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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