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Draw different views of prisms and solids formed from combinations of prisms (ACMMG161)

Elaborations
  • using aerial views of buildings and other 3-D structures to visualise the structure of the building or prism
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Transformation (Geometry),  Prisms

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