Exploring Transformations
Exploring Transformations
Investigate translating and reflecting shapes in the coordinate plane and observe how the new image is related to the original shape.
- Students will identify the coordinates of a shape that has been translated.
- Students will identify the coordinates of a shape that has been reflected.
- Students will determine the original coordinates of a translated figure given its current coordinates and the directed distance of translation.
- pre-image
- image
- transformation
- translation
- reflection
This lesson involves translating and reflecting shapes in the coordinate plane. As a result, students will:
- Translate a shape horizontally and vertically by grabbing and moving points along a line.
- Determine the coordinates of the image given the amount of translation.
- Reflect a shape over the x-axis and the y-axis by moving points along a line.
- Determine the coordinates of the image given the direction of reflection.
- Determine the difference between a reflection and a translation.
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