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Students work in cooperative groups to manipulate a figure on the computer to demonstrate different types of geometric transformations. They generate formulas that can be used to translate different figures.
Learners utilize artwork to help illustrate the major ideas of transformations and tessellations. visually identify transformations including reflections, rotations, and translations. They discuss how artists have used geometry in their artwork.
High schoolers explore the concept of transformations. In this transformations lesson, students transform figures by reflection and rotation. High schoolers enter the coordinates into lists and transform the lists. Students transform a set of points that create an arrow.
Middle schoolers construct a three-dimensional model of a city using both similar and congruent figures and geometric transformations. City must have at least ten buildings with each building labeled and may be constructed out of paper or modeling clay. A two-dimensional representation, drawn to scale, must be included as well.
Students determine the scale factor of a polygon given an image and pre-image. In this scale factor of a polygon given an image and pre-image instructional activity, students dilate polygons and measure the perimeter and area of the image and pre-image. Students determine the ratios of the two figures and compare it with the scale factor.
Students explore the concept of transformations. In this transformations lesson, students enter data into lists and make a scatter plot of points. Students use lists to transform the data points by shifting the points, left and right, or up and down. Students also enlarge and shrink the data points.
Students explore transformation through the construction of patterns on a TI handheld. In this math lesson, students investigate and apply their knowledge of reflection, translation, rotation, and dilation. This assignment requires minimal teacher involvement.
Students create rotation templates from cardboard, covering sheets of paper with repeating patterns. They add details to create Escher-type pieces of artwork. They examine transformational geometry on various Web sites.
Twelfth graders explore transforming matrices representing figures in the coordinate plane by entering data points of figures such as triangles and quadrilaterals into a matrix. High schoolers dilate, rotate, reflect, and translate the figures by multiplying by translation matrices.
TImath has put together a instructional activity which shows how to use a graphing calculator to manipulate a puppet and make transformations. A good visual as the class manipulates the vectors and sees what happens. They can observe what geometric part are preserved and which parts might change.