Kirsten Schmidt
NCTM
http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap6/6.4/index.htm
Teaching topic of the materials:
8th grade: Transformations
Brief description of how the materials would be used:
Before introducing this activity to students I would inform them with all of the terminology and plenty of examples. The computer lab would be the best place to take the students to observe and use this activity.
Identify other material that you could use with this material to augment instruction, especially for EC students:
For other students that may find this activity a little difficult, I would provide a large, laminated graphed poster board and large shape to use on the poster board. I would let the students pick shapes and trace it and then have them transform the shape from its original position.
Explain why you would use this material with your students. How will the material help your students learn the topic?
Transformations have always been a fun activity for me and I always enjoy finding new activities to do using transformations. This activity provides practices using each of the transformations in different ways. The interactivity of this activity allows students to visualize the transformations along with identifying and composing reflections and transformations. It also allows students to see what happens to objects when more than one transformation is applied.
