Augment a unit on parabolas with an instructive math activity. Pupils graph parabolas by examining the relationship between the focus and directrix. 

Don't stop with two-dimensional learning, go to the next dimension! Learners verify that 3x3 matrices represent linear transformations in the third dimension. Additionally, they verify the algebraic properties that extend to vector...

Students practice moving different shaped objects through a series of transformations. In groups, they discuss other ways to manipulate the figure to achieve the same results. They solve multiple story problems in the same manner.

Fifth graders duplicate patterns, guess pattern results and identify the symmetries created. They are given an instructional handout, 5th graders replicate the patterns demonstrated by folding the paper and punching the appropriate...

Students investigate stereoisomers using models that can be rotated and manipulated. In this stereoisomers lesson plan, students try to make models of molecules look alike by rotating the bonds. Using a mirror, the teacher demonstrates...

Fourth graders design their own letter graph, and then produce the resulting graphs after a translation, reflection, and rotation. After a review of vocabulary, 4th graders create their graphs using crayons.

Students investigate the rigid motions of reflection, rotation, translation, and dilation. This investigation be accomplished through classroom instruction and exploration using Geometer's Sketchpad.

In this polygons and angles instructional activity, 10th graders complete 5 different questions related to polygons and angles, in addition to symmetry and transformations. First, they define polygon and how they are named. Then,...

Studnents examine the degree of biodiversity that exists in one's everyday environment, in order to develop an understanding of how scientists classify organisms and to explain why biodiversity is important for living things.

Students draw on graph paper. In this geometry lesson, students review types of triangles and quadrilaterals. Students investigate geometric transformations, including translation, rotation and reflection. Students practice each...

Third graders explore the history of tessellations; then use art and geometry to create an original tessellation.

Students listen to the math problem and discuss. They work alone or in groups to come up with the possible solutions and put their pictures of the bottle arrangements on the wall so that the class can refer to them.

Young scholars discuss the concepts of reflection, rotation, and translation. For this rotation activity, students investigate rotations through examples on an overhead projector. No additional worksheet or student assignment is included.

Learners observe the cracks in school walls and pavements. In this geometry lesson, students explore the factors to be considered before building a structure. They complete a graphing and calculation worksheet after the lesson.

Students work in pairs, to make a square on the geoboards with a rubber band (or draw one on the dot paper). It can be any size and in any location and share their answers with the class.

These activities provide an opportunity for students to explore reflections both on and off of a coordinate plane.

In this instructional activity on reflections using coordinates, 8th graders explore reflections of line segments using the coordinate plane.

Given two figures on the coordinate plane, find the formal definition of the reflection that takes one figure to another. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive...

Students will learn how to perform a reflection using the Cabri Jr. application, and will explore the properties of reflections. This activity will extend the concepts of reflection to the coordinate plane.

Students move their cursor in this activity center to occupy a unique point on a background letter "F" in quadrant 1. Students then together follow a rule for going to a different point (such as "use the opposite of the original x...

In this activity, students review basic geometry vocabulary while investigating reflections on a coordinate grid.

In this task, 8th graders are shown a picture of a triangle on a coordinate grid and are asked to draw and label reflections and explain a transformation. Aligns with 8.G.A.3.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Translate, rotate, and reflect figures using coordinate notation and graphing in the coordinate plane.

Given a coordinate plane, the student will graph dilations, reflections, and translations, and use those graphs to solve problems.