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Position and direction: coordinates, symmetry and transformations

This guide provides a sequence of small steps for exploring and becoming confident in describing position in the first quadrant, translation with coordinates and applying understanding of symmetry when exploring reflection with coordinates.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 5, Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Explicit teaching
Keywords	position, direction, translation, coordinates, lines of symmetry, reflection, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Space, Build understanding
Topics	Position and location, Transformation
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M5SP02 Construct a grid coordinate system that uses coordinates to locate positions within a space; use coordinates and directional language to describe position and movement AC9M5SP03 Describe and perform translations, reflections and rotations of shapes, using dynamic geometric software where appropriate; recognise what changes and what remains the same, and identify any symmetries AC9M6SP03 Recognise and use combinations of transformations to create tessellations and other geometric patterns, using dynamic geometric software where appropriate
Numeracy progression	Positioning and locating (P5) Understanding geometric properties (P5)
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