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Square dotty grid

Use this online interactive to create 2D shapes using a square grid.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Space
Topics	Shapes and objects
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M2SP01 Recognise, compare and classify shapes, referencing the number of sides and using spatial terms such as "opposite", "parallel", "curved" and "straight" AC9M3SP01 Make, compare and classify objects, identifying key features and explaining why these features make them suited to their uses AC9M4SP01 Represent and approximate composite shapes and objects in the environment, using combinations of familiar shapes and objects AC9M5SP01 Connect objects to their nets and build objects from their nets using spatial and geometric reasoning
Numeracy progression	Understanding geometric properties (P3, P4)
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