Turning wheels

Turning wheels

Pencil and paper
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This task is about drawing a pattern after it has been rotated.

Paul is fixing the front wheel of his bike.

a) Draw what the pattern on the wheel would look like after Paul has turned it a 1⁄4 turn anti-clockwise.
 
 
b) Draw what the pattern on the wheel would look like after Paul has turned it a 1⁄4 turn clockwise.
 
 
 
c) Draw what the pattern on the wheel would look like after Paul has turned it a 1⁄2 turn anti-clockwise.
 
 

 

Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper.
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Transformation
Keywords: 
transformations, rotation, clockwise, anti-clockwise, drawing
Description of task: 
This task requires students to draw in what the pattern on a bicycle wheel would look like after it has made clockwise and anticlockwise turns.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Geometric thinking, set 3
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
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Answers/responses: 

 

Y4 (11/2001)
a) moderate
b) moderate
c) moderate