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Transformations
This sequence of lessons explores student understanding of reflections, rotations and translations. Students can work collaboratively to determine the combination of shapes which can undergo transformation. Students then carry out their own reflections, translations and rotations. Downloadable templates, worksheets and a PowerPoint presentation are provided for teachers to use.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6, Year 7 |
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| Audience | Teacher, Student |
| Purpose | Assessment task, Content knowledge, Student task, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Explicit teaching, Feedback, Growth mindset, Structuring lessons, Worked examples |
| Keywords | Cartesian plane, coordinates, reflection, rotation, translation, symmetry, combined transformation, positve scale factor, negative scale factor, mapping object |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | English, ICT general capability, Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Space, Apply understanding, Build understanding |
| Topics | Angles and geometric reasoning, 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
AC9M7SP03
Describe transformations of a set of points using coordinates in the Cartesian plane, translations and reflections on an axis, and rotations about a given point |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P4, P5)
Positioning and locating (P5) |
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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