Mathematics / Year 7 / Measurement and Geometry / Shape

Curriculum content descriptions

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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Patterns, rules and graphs

In this lesson, students play games and learn about space and location, the Cartesian plane, pattern recognition and reductive reasoning by playing games and thinking. Students create algebraic equations to describe their strategy. Follow this lesson with Graphs: formulas and variables, though both lessons can be taught ...

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Use this diagnostic task to assess what students know about volume and units to measure and compare volumes.

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Geometry: Foundation to Year 9

This comprehensive resource describes the progression of geometric reasoning. The resource demonstrates examples of relevant teaching strategies, investigations, activity plans and connected concepts in geometry including teaching and cultural implications.

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Diagnostic task: Volume of prisms

Use these diagnostic tasks, Volume of prisms (1) and Volume of prisms (2), to assess a student’s understanding of working out the volume of rectangular prisms and a formula for volume.

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Measurement: Foundation to Year 9

This comprehensive resource describes the progression of measurement ideas. The resource demonstrates examples of relevant teaching strategies, investigations, activity plans and connected concepts in measurement including teaching and cultural implications.

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AERO Ochre Maths Year 6 Unit 3 - Missing angles and lengths

This sequence of five lessons focuses on teaching students to find the missing angles and lengths of various different shapes.