Activity

Transforming Houses

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Moving a house is hard work. Given a diagram of a row of houses, scholars determine a set of transformations that would map one house to the next. A second diagram with a coordinate plane helps with the task.

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CCSS: Designed
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Instructional Ideas
  • Challenge learners to find other instances of transformations in magazines or websites
Classroom Considerations
  • Pupils should be familiar with transformations, including dilations
  • Knowledge of ratios would also be helpful in determining the dilation factor
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Pros
  • Provides link to more transformation resources
Cons
  • Does not provide a worksheet and only provides one simplistic problem to solve
Common Core