Transformations and co-ordinates

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Extension
Understand and use the language and notation associated with reflections, translations and rotations.          
Recognise and visualise the symmetries of a 2-D shape.

Recognising rotational symmetry LOGO

Identify all the symmetries of 2-D shapes. Identify reflection symmetry in 3-D shapes.
Transform 2-D shapes by: • reflecting in given mirror lines
• rotating about a given point
• translating.

Reflections Excel

Rotations Excel

Enhancing understanding of reflection though the use of video

Transform 2-D shapes by rotation, reflection and translation, on paper and using ICT.

GSP Making a Kaleidoscope

Recognise that translations, rotations and reflections preserve length and angle, and map objects on to congruent images. Transform 2-D shapes by combinations of translations, rotations and reflections, on paper and using ICT; use congruence to show that translations, rotations and reflections preserve length and angle.
Combinations of transformations
Explore these transformations and symmetries using ICT.

Symmetrical Pictures Excel

Try out mathematical representations of simple combinations of these transformations.

Transformation golf

Explore and compare mathematical representations of combinations of translations, rotations and reflections of 2-D shapes, on paper and using ICT.

Use geometric transformations to design a repeating pattern Geogebra

Use any point as the centre of rotation; measure the angle of rotation, using fractions of a turn or degrees; understand that translations are specified by a vector. Understand and use vector notation to describe transformation of 2-D shapes by combinations of translations; calculate and represent graphically the sum of two vectors. Calculate and represent graphically the sum of two vectors, the difference of two vectors and a scalar multiple of a vector; calculate the resultant of two vectors.
Devise instructions for a computer to generate and transform shapes. Understand and use the commutative and associative properties of vector addition.
Solve simple geometrical problems in 2-D using vectors.
Understand and use the language and notation associated with enlargement; enlarge 2-D shapes, given a centre of enlargement and a positive integer scale factor; explore enlargement using ICT.

Drawing enlargements

Enlargement GSP

Enlargement triangle GSP

Enlarge 2-D shapes, given a centre of enlargement and a positive integer scale factor, on paper and using ICT; identify the scale factor of an enlargement as the ratio of the lengths of any two corresponding line segments; recognise that enlargements preserve angle but not length, and understand the implications of enlargement for perimeter.

Enlargements teaching tool

Enlargement Excel

Enlarge 2-D shapes using positive, fractional and negative scale factors, on paper and using ICT; recognise the similarity of the resulting shapes; understand and use the effects of enlargement on perimeter. Understand and use the effects of enlargement on areas and volumes of shapes and solids.
Make scale drawings. Use and interpret maps and scale drawings in the context of mathematics and other subjects.

Highway Link design

Use conventions and notation for 2-D coordinates in all four quadrants; find coordinates of points determined by geometric information. Find the midpoint of the line segment AB, given the coordinates of points A and B. Use the coordinate grid to solve problems involving translations, rotations, reflections and enlargements. Find the points that divide a line in a given ratio, using the properties of similar triangles; calculate the length of AB, given the coordinates of points A and B.