Math Planet
Math Planet: Geometry: Transformation Using Matrices
Explains how simple polygons translate into matrices and how to use 2x2 matrices to represent transformations in a plane. Includes video demonstrating an example where a vector must be rotated 90 degrees using matrices. [4:18]
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Composition of Transformations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students explore composite transformations. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt practice...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Translations of Geometric Figures: Lesson 1
This lesson will present how to translate a geometric figure on a coordinate plane, and will discuss how the properties of the figure are affected. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Translations of Geometric Figures."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Translations of Geometric Figures: Lesson 3
This lesson will present how to translate a geometric figure on a coordinate plane, and will discuss how the properties of the figure are affected. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Translations of Geometric Figures."
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Connecting Translations, Reflection, and Rotations
In this activity, students will investigate the relationship among the three types of rigid transformations - translations, rotations, and reflections.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Translations, Reflections, and Rotations
Students are introduced to translations, reflections, and rotations and how to explore them in real-world scenarios.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Traveling Shapes Motion Geometry
In this activity, students describe how to move a shape from one place to another in a plane. They learn about translations, rotations, and line reflections. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Tessellations Geometry and Symmetry
This lesson plan deals with tessellations and their geometric concepts. Upper elementary and middle school students will also explore polygons, symmetry, analyze patterns and explore the role of mathematics in nature and culture.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Translations on the Coordinate Plane
Use the activity center in TI-Navigator to discover a generalization for translating ordered pairs in a coordinate plane.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Transformation
This site defines transformation and lists several different examples of transformations. Be sure to follow the links to related terms, everyday examples, challenging problems, more information, and the interactive check point involving...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Geometry in Tessellations
This upper elementary and middle school lesson plan explores tessellations and their geometric properties. Plenty of interactive support is available for students. Lots of resources for teachers to use.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: General "Transformation" Vocabulary
This site offers a short discussion of transformations. The discussion has few pictures and expresses the transformations in terms of relative coordinates rather than pictures.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Computer Accuracy
Accuracy of measurement in navigation depends very much on the situation. If a sailor's target is an island 200 km wide, sailing off center by 10 or 20 km is not a major problem. But, if the island were only 1 km wide, it would be missed...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Learning Math: Symmetry
This presentation provides a tutorial on symmetry. In the tutorial, you will do the following: learn about geometric symmetry, explore line or reflection symmetry, explore rotation symmetry, and explore translation symmetry and frieze...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Fixed Points of Rigid Motions
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,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Composite Transformations
In this seven-problem quiz/practice, students show they understand the result of combining different transformations.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Wrapping Paper Patterns
Students explore slides, flips, and turns in this interactive web lesson.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Multicultural Math Fair: Navajo Burntwater Designs
Simple lesson designed to help students learn the geometric concepts of translation, reflection, and symmetry by creating Navajo weaving patterns. Includes templates and instructions and is available in English and Spanish....
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Building Stars
This interactive activity gives you an opportunity to color in a tessellation that is different from the usual. Read the short introduction to find out more about this tessellation that doesn't repeat.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Tesselations
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a visual instruction of tessellations. It displays a variety of tessellations throughout the world and in different cultures.