Flips, Turns, and Slides: Adventures with Transformations Lesson Plan Information | Lesson Plan Activities | Printable version (including handouts) (PDF)

Standard Use Math to Solve Problems and Communicate Outcomes Introduce students to the concepts of transformations and explore the attributes of reflections, translations and rotations in the real world and on a coordinate grid.

Classroom Information

GED Descriptors      math Roles      Family, Community Member Program Type(s)      ABE, GED, Family Literacy, Urban, Rural, Corrections NRS Learner Levels (ABE/GED)       4, 5, 6 Time Frame       Four 45 minute classes Technology Integration Coordinate Grid Paper Coordinate Grid Paper Coordinate Grid Paper What Is Your Coordinate? Transformations Transformations Lesson Ideas

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Purposeful, Transparent, Contextual, Building Expertise

Purposeful and Transparent All activities relate to the students goal of understanding turns, flips and slides Contextual Students discuss where in their experience they have seen these relationships Building Expertise Lesson builds of previous student life experiences along with Eureka lesson, "Let's Plot Points."

Lesson Designer Paula Mullet OLRC Math Consultant prmullet@att.net

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