What is the area?
Use this diagnostic task to assess what students know about area and using the area formula.
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| Year level(s) | Year 5, Year 6 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Assessment advice, Assessment task |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Questioning, Feedback |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Measurement |
| Topics | Length, Area, volume and surface area |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M5M02
Solve practical problems involving the perimeter and area of regular and irregular shapes using appropriate metric units
AC9M6M02
Establish the formula for the area of a rectangle and use it to solve practical problems |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P7, P8)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Department of Education WA |
| Copyright | © Department of Education WA 2013. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 |
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