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Position and direction: quadrants, translations and reflections
This guide provides a sequence of small steps for learning about and plotting coordinates in the first quadrant before extending student knowledge to read and plot coordinates in all four quadrants. This knowledge is then used to translate and reflect shapes in all four quadrants.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Questioning, Explicit teaching |
| Keywords | translations, reflections, reasoning, problem-solving, coordinates, explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Space, Build understanding |
| Topics | 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 |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P5)
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| Organisation | White Rose Maths |
| Copyright | © 2021 White Rose Maths. Free-for-education material. |
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