Mathematics / Year 8 / Measurement and Geometry / Geometric reasoning

Curriculum content descriptions

Establish properties of quadrilaterals using congruent triangles and angle properties, and solve related numerical problems using reasoning (ACMMG202)

Elaborations
  • establishing the properties of squares, rectangles, parallelograms, rhombuses, trapeziums and kites
  • identifying properties related to side lengths, parallel sides, angles, diagonals and symmetry
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Angles,  Congruence (Geometry),  Quadrilaterals

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