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Shapes on the coordinate plane
Students use the coordinate plane to solve problems and puzzles.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Position and location |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M6N01
Recognise situations, including financial contexts, that use integers; locate and represent integers on a number line and as coordinates on the Cartesian plane
AC9M6SP02
Locate points in the 4 quadrants of a Cartesian plane; describe changes to the coordinates when a point is moved to a different position in the plane |
| Numeracy progression |
Positioning and locating (P5)
Number and place value (P9) |
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| Organisation | Illustrative Mathematics |
| Copyright | © 2017-2019 by Open Up Resources. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
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