Middle Grades Math: Transformers in the Classroom

Objectives

• Students will trace over different objects, digitize them, and then manipulate the ordered pairs that represent the shape to transform it in various ways.

Vocabulary

• dilation
• translation
• rotations
• reflections
• transformation
• digitizing
• coordinate

About the Lesson

This lesson involves digitizing an image and transforming it on a graph.
As a result, students will:

• Use the drawing tool to trace over an image on a Geometry page.
• Manipulate the shape’s coordinates in a spreadsheet to Dilate, Translate, Rotate, and Reflect it.
• Decide how to alter the lists of points and then look at the transformed shape with the original in a graph.
• Experiment and demonstrate alternative solutions to each transformation.