Mathematics / Year 2 / Measurement and Geometry / Location and transformation

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Curriculum content descriptions

Identify and describe half and quarter turns (ACMMG046)

Elaborations
  • predicting and reproducing a pattern based around half and quarter turns of a shape and sketching the next element in the pattern
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Shapes (Geometry),  Rotation

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