Pages

▼

Friday, June 28, 2013

Geometry: Transformations on the Coordinate Plane

Pg 12. Transformations

 

I pulled the information from the given website and typed this assignment.

Pg 13. Translations

Pg 14. Reflections
 


Pg 15. Rotational Symmetry

Pg 16. Rotations

During my third year, I implemented a new strategy for transformations.

Materials needed:

  • paper coordinate grid
  • coordinate grid on a transparency
  • push pin
  • piece of cardboard

Plot the original image on the paper grid.

 

Layer materials:

  1. cardboard
  2. paper
  3. transparency

Using a dry erase marker, copy/trace the original image; then using the transparency, complete a selected transformation. For translations, slide the transparency. For reflections, flip the transparency about the line of reflection. For rotations, turn the transparency in the desired direction and degree. Use the push pin to poke holes through the transparency, paper, and cardboard to mark the resulting image coordinates. Remove the transparency, and replicate the pre-image.

Pg 17. Dilations

Pg 18. Transformations Booklet
OBJECTIVE: This is another one of those 'create your own' projects. Students are given a grid and asked to plot a triangle of their own. I always use points that create a scalene triangle that does not have horizontal or vertical sides. I love watching students throughout this project because they see other's results and begin to connect patterns.

One year, I completed each section after each lesson and practice for the four transformations. The next year, we completed the entire booklet after all four lessons and practices were done. I'm not sure which had a better result. I think that the sequence depends on the level the students are performing at.

We then wrote a translation statement and completed a table using notation. I think students graphed first and then we completed the table. Graphing is easier for students because it it visual and kinesthetic.

We completed dilations after reflections and rotations.

I do remember stating at the beginning, that if you feel daring, then plot across the axes; however, if you are not sure, then keep it in a single quadrant.

 

at