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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.
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| Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Organisation | Inquiry Maths |
| Copyright | © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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