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Combined transformations inquiry

This sequence of lessons explores student understanding of reflections, rotations and translations. Students can work collaboratively to determine the combination of shapes which can undergo transformation. Students then carry out their own reflections, translations and rotations. Downloadable templates, worksheets and a PowerPoint presentation are provided for teachers to use.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 6, Year 7
Audience	Teacher, Student
Purpose	Assessment task, Content knowledge, Student task, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Explicit teaching, Feedback, Growth mindset, Structuring lessons, Worked examples
Keywords	Cartesian plane, coordinates, reflection, rotation, translation, symmetry, combined transformation, positve scale factor, negative scale factor, mapping object
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy
Strand and focus	Space, Apply understanding, Build understanding
Topics	Angles and geometric reasoning, Position and location, Shapes and objects, Transformation
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M6SP03 Recognise and use combinations of transformations to create tessellations and other geometric patterns, using dynamic geometric software where appropriate AC9M7SP03 Describe transformations of a set of points using coordinates in the Cartesian plane, translations and reflections on an axis, and rotations about a given point
Numeracy progression	Understanding geometric properties (P4, P5) Positioning and locating (P5)
Copyright details
Organisation	Inquiry Maths
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