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Describing Transformations

 

Students learn how to describe fully the single transformation that maps one shape onto another, covering rotations and translations.

As learning progresses, students extend this to reflections and enlargements, including fractional and negative scale factors, with differentiated support for mixed-attainment classes.

Transformations and Vectors Foundation | Performing and Describing Transformations Higher

Differentiated Learning Objectives
  • All students should be able to describe a single transformation using a rotation or translation fully.
  • Most students should be able to fully describe a single transformation as a reflection, rotation or translation.
  • Some students should be able to fully describe a single transformation as an enlargement, reflection, rotation or translation.

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