How does something go from here to there? Describe it with a transformation. Young mathematicians learn how to translate, reflect, rotate, and dilate an image. 

Concepts

transformations, reflections, translations, rotations, dilations

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use a graphic organizer to record examples of each type of transformation
• Extend the lesson to using notation with each transformation

Classroom Considerations

• Provide graph paper to your classes to aid in note taking
• The lesson is the eighth in a series of 16

Pros

• Highlights vocabulary through definitions and multiple examples

Cons

• Examples show a transformation but do not give an explanation of how to perform the transformation

Common Core

HSG-CO.A.5