Math K-7 IRP Shape and Space (Transformation)

Students perform, analyse, and create transformations.


Prescribed Learning Outcomes Illustrated Examples
It is expected that students will:
  • create, analyse, and describe designs using translations (slides) and reflections (flips)
    		• -> Rajinder cut away one side of a regular polygon to make a new shape. Then he slid the shape to the opposite side and fastened it securely with tape. He says the new shape will tessellate and his method of decorating the shape will result in an interesting tiling pattern. Investigate Rajinderžs shape.

    Try your own tessellation, complete with unique decorating and colouring. Report your work in an oral presentation to the class.

  • draw designs using ordered pairs in the first quadrant of the coordinate grid, together with slide and flip images
    		• -> Plot these points on a coordinate grid.
    A (1, 5)D (6, 3)
    B (1, 3)E (6, 1)
    C (2, 3)F (5, 1)


    Describe what combination of translations, rotations, and reflections would move triangle ABC to the position of triangle DEF.

    Make up a problem with quadrilaterals in place of triangles.
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