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Teacher guide Similarity

TLF ID M013359

This is a website designed for both teachers and students, which addresses similarity from the Australian Curriculum for year 9 students. It contains material on enlargement transformation and similar triangles. There are pages for both teachers and students. The student pages contain interactive questions for students to check their progress in the topic.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • This resource is valuable for both teachers and students for the year 9 Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. It is particularly relevant for the content description about enlargement transformations and similarity in relation to triangles. It supports students' understanding of how enlargement factors can be used to determine whether or not triangles are similar, and assists them to identify the conditions that must be met for triangles to be considered as similar.
  • It may be useful in relation to the year 9 content descriptions in the mathematics curriculum that refer to the enlargement transformation in relation to similarity and the conditions for triangles to be similar.
Year level

9

Topics Triangles (Shapes) Trigonometric ratios Distance Ratios Pythagoras´ theorem Dilation Similarity (Geometry) Generalisation
Learning area
  • Mathematics

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Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Name: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Organization: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Description: Creator
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.amsi.org.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Online
  • Interactive
  • Text
Rights
  • © 2013 Education Services Australia Ltd, unless otherwise indicated. This material may be copied, distributed and adapted free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes, provided all copyright notices and acknowledgements are retained.