Geometric thinking resources

Students need to identify which of the three transformations - translation, reflection, or rotation - has been applied to an animal wallpaper pattern.

In this practical task students use a ruler, a protractor, and a compass to enlarge an arrow by two given scale factors. They then complete a table to show the invariant properties.

Students draw lines of symmetry through pictures of everyday objects.

Students complete shape patterns which show translation, reflection, or rotation.

Students identify the angles of rotation that enable shapes to fit onto themselves.

Students identify the invariant properties of a translated and an enlarged shape.

Students identify which transformations could have been performed on pairs of shapes.

Students draw lines of symmetry on everyday objects.

Students draw reflections of words in a horizontal axis.

Students identify invariant properties for enlargement.

Students identify axes of symmetry, and angles of rotation.

Student reflect words in horizontal and vertical axes.

Students identify which transformation have been used to make different pictures of frogs.

Students identify what transformations are used to continue a pattern.

Students identify axes of symmetry on several shapes and which shape has no axis of symmetry.

Students identify which transformation has been used to map one shape onto another.

Students identify the number of faces for different 3-dimensional cube models.

Students choose which transformation is being used to continue a pattern.

Students are required to draw in arrows to show the parallel lines on three given shapes. They then draw in a right-angle symbol to show the perpendicular lines on three other given shapes.

Using a diagram of a regular hexagon, students calculate its interior and exterior angles.

Students calculate the interior and exterior angles of a regular octagon and explain their calculations.

Students identify the order of rotational symmetry for a number of shapes.

Students enlarge shapes by whole number scale factors.

Students draw reflections of shapes in given mirror lines.

Students solve probelms about a reflection and time.