Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Shape: Rotation
Test your knowledge of rotation of shapes and determing the center.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Shape: Rotation About Any Point
Test your knowledge of rotation of an object and determine the center.
NASA
Nasa: Space Place: How Long Is One Day on Other Planets?
Here on Earth a day takes 24 hours. How long are days on other planets in our solar system? Find out here in three different ways, whichever meets your learning style the best.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Rigid Transformations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify different types of transformations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Rotations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognizing and identifying rotation transformations and rotational symmetry
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Trigonometry: Rotations in Radians
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Express rotations in radian measure
OpenStax
Open Stax: Types of Body Movement
This site provides information regarding types of body movement. Movement types are generally paired, with one being the opposite of the other. Body movements are always described in relation to the anatomical position of the body:...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Lunar Lollipops
The students work in teams of two to discover the relative positions of the Earth, Sun and Moon that produce the different phases of the Moon. The students will be given a Styrofoam ball that they will attach to a pencil so that it looks...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Ring Around the Rosie
Students learn the concept of angular momentum and its correlation to mass, velocity and radius. They experiment with rotation and an object's mass distribution. In an associated literacy activity, students use basic methods of...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Using Properties of Transformations
Given examples of mathematics in the real world, the student will use properties of transformations and their composites to describe and perform transformations of figures in a plane.
Other
Precession of a Gyroscope and of the Earth's Axis
Describes and calculates the precession of a gyroscope and also discusses the precession of the Earth's axis. Includes several pictures, diagrams, formulas, and details.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Determine Rotations
Given a figure on the coordinate plane and a center of a rotation, find the angle for the rotation that maps one figure to the other. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rotate Shapes: Center Not (0,0)
Given a figure on the coordinate plane and the definition of a rotation about an arbitrary point, draw the image of that rotation. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rotate Shapes
Given a figure on the coordinate plane and the definition of a rotation about the origin, draw the image of that rotation. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rotate 2 D Shapes in 3 D
Practice your 3D visualization skills by rotating 2D shapes. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Graphing Calculator Practice Problems: Transformations
Practice using your graphing calculator for transformation problems. If you get stumped or if you would like to check your work, then select the View Solution button, which is located directly under each problem.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Rotation Symmetry
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students how to determine whether or not a shape has rotation symmetry.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Tessellations Grades 9 10
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students about tessellations and how to determine whether or not a figure will tessellate.
Other
Xah Lee: Some Theorems on Rotation and Translation
This site is for the purpose of using proofs for geometry. It helps by giving some useful theorems.
Analyze Math
Analyze Math: Rotation of Geometric Shapes
Use this applet to choose a shape to rotate around the origin. This could be used to demonstrate what a rotation is, or students could use it to guess what a certain degree rotation will look like.
NASA
Nasa: Imagine the Universe: Speed of Earth's Rotation
Presents an informative answer to the question "What is the speed of the turning of the Earth?"
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: As the Earth Turns
Join Audrey on her learning adventure as she discovers how the Earth's rotation causes day and night.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rotations in the Plane
In this activity, students will explore the properties of rotations and the relationships between the original and image figures.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rotations in the Plane Cabri Jr: Interactive
In this activity, you will explore the invariant properties of rotations and the results of rotations in the coordinate plane.