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Transformation Golf

 

Description

Practice your skills with translations, rotations, and reflections in this coordinate based game. Can you get a hole in one?

Levels

Preparation Time

5 minutes

Activity Time

15 to 60 minutes

Topics

Goals

Materials

Prerequisites

Advanced Prerequisites

Authors

Game designed and coded by Anna Varvak with assistance from Prototyping Team members Ian Garner, Jeremy Mische-Gibson, Tony Nguyen, and Lee Zwart. Lesson plan by Amanda Serenevy.

National Common Core Standards

8.G.1 Verify experimentally the properties of rotations, reflections, and translations.
8.G.2 Understand that a two-dimensional figure is congruent to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, and translations. Given two congruent figures, give a sequence of transformations that exhibits the congruence.
8.G.3 Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations, and reflections on two-dimensional figures using coordinates.
8.G.4 Understand that a two-dimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations. Given two similar figures, give a sequence of transformations that exhibits the similarity.
HS.G-CO.4 Develop definitions of rotations, reflections, and translations in terms of angles, circles, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and line segments.
HS.G-CO.5 Given a geometric figure and a rotation, reflection, or translation, draw the transformed figure using graph paper, tracing paper, or geometry software. Specify a sequence of transformations that will carry a given figure onto another.
HS.G-CO.6 Use geometric descriptions of rigid motions to transform figures and to predict the effect of a given rigid motion on a given figure; given two figures, use the definition of congruence in terms of rigid motions to decide if they are congruent.
HS.G-SRT.1 Verify experimentally the properties of dilations given by a center and a scale factor.
HS.G-SRT.2 Given two figures, use similarity transformations to decide if they are similar; explain using similarity transformations the meaning of similarity for triangles as the equality of all corresponding pairs of angles and the proportionality of all corresponding pairs of sides.
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