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Organization: North Carolina Standard Course of Study
Grade Band: 8th Grade
Standard Goal: The learner will understand and use properties and relationships in geometry.
| Translations, Reflections, and Rotations |
Lesson: Introduces students to concepts of transformations.
| | Visual Patterns in Tessellations |
Lesson: Explore the mathematical nature of art and tilings and looks at the role of math in nature and our culture.
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Tessellate! |
Activity: Create a tessellation by deforming a triangle, rectangle or hexagon to form a polygon that tiles the plane. Corners of the polygons may be dragged, and corresponding edges of the polygons may be dragged. Parameters: Colors, starting polygon.
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Transmographer 2 |
Activity: Build your own polygon and transform it in the Cartesian coordinate system. Experiment with reflections across any line, rotations about any point, and translations in any direction. Parameters: Shape, x or y translation, x or y reflection, angle of rotation
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