Parallel and perpendicular lines
Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines
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If your child looks at a set of railway tracks or a window frame, can they point to which lines are parallel (never crossing) and which are perpendicular (meeting at a right angle)?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
recognise, compare and classify shapes, referencing the number of sides and using spatial terms such as “opposite”, “parallel”, “curved” and “straight”
make, compare and classify familiar shapes; recognise familiar shapes and objects in the environment, identifying the similarities and differences between them
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.