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Reflections and coordinates inquiry

The prompt asks students to think about the effect of a reflection in a line on a Cartesian plane. Students can use simple counting or algebra to find a general solution. The resource includes classroom examples, teacher notes and guided questions.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Assessment task, Extension, Student task, Teaching resource
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Explicit teaching, Feedback, Mathematics investigation
Keywords	reflection, coordinates, graph, point, equation of a line
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy, The Arts
Strand and focus	Space, Algebra, Apply understanding, Build understanding
Topics	Angles and geometric reasoning
Copyright details
Organisation	Inquiry Maths
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