Step 8 Objective

Know that translations, rotations and reflections preserve length and angle and map objects on to congruent images.


What if pupils find this a barrier?

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Give pupils a grid with labelled congruent shapes formed from transformations: reflections, rotations, and translations. (See FTM(S)Y789 p. 205 - Acrobat pdf document (40Kb) for example.) Ask them to select pairs that are reflections and to describe the reflection, and similarly for rotations and translations. Use the probing questions.