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Mathematics / Year 7 / Measurement and Geometry / Geometric reasoning

Curriculum content descriptions

Identify corresponding, alternate and co-interior angles when two straight lines are crossed by a transversal (ACMMG163)

Elaborations
  • defining and classifying pairs of angles as complementary, supplementary, adjacent and vertically opposite
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Co-interior angles,  Corresponding angles,  Horizontal planes

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