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Curriculum content descriptions

Solve problems using ratio and scale factors in similar figures (ACMMG221)

Elaborations
  • establishing the relationship between areas of similar figures and the ratio of corresponding sides (scale factor)
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Ratios,  Scale (Proportions),  Similarity (Geometry)

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