Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Defining Rotations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this tutorial, students learn about the rules that operate in the rotation of 2-D figures on a coordinate grid. Includes video, lots of examples, review...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Connecting Translations, Reflection, and Rotations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will investigate the relationship among the three types of rigid transformations - translations, rotations, and reflections.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Dilation in the Coordinate Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept explores graphing a dilation given a description of the dilation. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Sidewalk Capers [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The objective of this lesson is for learners to, "explore spatial relationships by determining the area of various shapes and creating tessellation patterns." Using a variety of hands-on activities, students apply concepts of geometry,...
Activity
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Dilation in the Coordinate Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will adjust Frankenstien's face to explore dilation. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice question.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Seven Circles Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, seven pennies are placed in a circle so that they are all touching one in the center and their neighbors. Students are asked to find as many rigid motions of the plane as they can which are symmetries of this configuration...
Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Wrapping Paper Patterns

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students explore slides, flips, and turns in this interactive web lesson.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Fixed Points of Rigid Motions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A rigid motion of the plane is a map of the plane to itself which preserves distances between points. The purpose of this task is to use fixed points as a tool for studying and classifying rigid motions of the plane, i.e., translations,...
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: All in the Mind

For Students 3rd - 8th
You will have to use visualization to help you solve this challenge. At this one page website, you will be able to check your solution.
Website
Stanford University

Stanford University: Conventionality of Simultaneity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Stanford University is on the topic of simultaneity in relativity.
Lesson Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Intuitive Symmetry: Point, Line, Plane, Rotational

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Investigate the concept of symmetry at this test prep site. See detailed definitions and picture examples, answer the questions in the interactive practice pages, and do the classroom activity where students use a digital camera to...
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Puzzling Cube

For Students 3rd - 8th
See if you can figure out which symbols are on which cube face at this one page website. The solution is just a click away once you have your solution in mind.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Dicey

For Students 3rd - 8th
If you can visualize a cube and turn it around in your mind, then this is the challenge for you. This one page website has the solution available to check your thinking.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Practice: Reflect Points

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
In this set of questions, students practice using an interactive tool to reflect images on a Cartesian grid. Includes hints.
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Reflections: Line and Point

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Lesson and activities focusing on line reflection. Here you will find a detailed explanation of the concept with picture examples, opportunities for interactive practice, and supporting classroom activities in the teacher resource pages.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix Series: Potential Energy Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Observe what happens in the change in the type of energy during a reaction in this simulation. After the activity, answer a self-correcting challenge question.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Translations, Reflections, and Rotations

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers are introduced to translations, reflections, and rotations and how to explore them in real-world scenarios.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Advanced Reflections

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find the reflection that maps a given figure to another and draw the image of a reflection. The lines of reflection in this exercise have a wide range of slopes.
Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Calculus and Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Over two dozen links are provided at this MathWorld site. From Polynomials and Series to Dynamical Systems and Catastrophe Theory, each link provides in-depth explanations and relevant diagrams of the topics at hand.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Translations on the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Use the activity center in TI-Navigator to discover a generalization for translating ordered pairs in a coordinate plane.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe, G Co, G Srt Unit Squares and Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, students are shown three unit squares and two line segments connecting two pairs of vertices. They are asked to find the area of a triangle formed by intersecting lines. They can solve it using coordinate geometry or...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Volume of Cylinders

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart guides the students through the process of determining the volume of a cylinder. Students learn to transform formulas in order to find the missing elements.
Handout
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Dilation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Determine the meaning of dilation through the glossary entry.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Geometric Definitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Check your understanding of the definitions of geometry terms in this exercise. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.