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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks Student activities Teaching resource
- Strand
- Space Algebra
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Publisher
- Inquiry Maths
- Copyright
- © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- coordinates graph
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