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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transformations, Rotations, Dilations 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This StudyCards stack tests students' understanding of translation, transformation, symmetry, dilation, and rotation of a point to form images. Teachers require TI StudyCards Creator Software and students will need the StudyCardApp on...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Dilations and Distances

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The goal of this task is to study the impact of dilations on distances between points. Aligns with G-CO.A.2.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Similarity and Dilations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will discover properties of similar figures using the TI-89 and CABRI Geometry II to use dilations to dynamically manipulate figures.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Dilations

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a short interactive quiz which allows students to self-assess their understanding of the concept of dilations.
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Unit Plan
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Algebra: Dilate Graphs Vertically

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides students practice with the concept of dilation. Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to practice the skill.
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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Algebra: Dilate Graphs Horizontally

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides students practice with the concept of dilations, Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to practice the skill.
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Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: An Intuitive Notion of Dilation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a very basic discussion of dilations. It explains what a scaling factor is and provides illustrations.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Graphing Dilations, Reflections, and Translations

For Students 8th Standards
Given a coordinate plane, the student will graph dilations, reflections, and translations, and use those graphs to solve problems.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Dilation

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept introduces dilations and how to find scale factors. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt...
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eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Geometry: Transformations and Symmetry: Dilations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on dilations, a dilation is a transformation that resizes a geometric shape, by making it bigger or smaller.
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Handout
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Resources: Time Dilation Equation

For Students 9th - 10th
Using an example of light bouncing back and forth between two mirrors in a rocket, time dilation is explained in this resource. Step-by-step calculations using Einstein's time dilation equation are shown.
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Handout
University of Virginia

University Virginia/time Dilation: A Worked Example

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a solved problem in time dilation. It's still not easy to follow, but it's doable. The math is not difficult, but the mathematical thinking is demanding.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 6.1 Dilations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A transformation is a function that takes points in the plane as inputs and gives other points as outputs. You can think of a transformation as a rule that tells you how to create new points from old points.
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Activity
McGraw Hill

Glencoe Online: Geometry: Dilation Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers an online multiple choice quiz on dilation. The site offers a link to a hint per question along with a the correct responses though the grading of the quiz.
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Activity
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Dilation in the Coordinate Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will adjust Frankenstien's face to explore dilation. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice question.
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Handout
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Dilation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Determine the meaning of dilation through the glossary entry.
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Handout
Fourmilab Switzerland

John Walker: C Ship: The Dilation of Time

For Students 9th - 10th
A good mathematical account of what happens to time as you approach c: the speed of light. Also provides a rather a fascinating video (fly through the Lattice) - don't miss it. Take some time and explore this site.
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Interactive
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Transtar: Reflections, Rotations, Dilations and Translations

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
For this geometry game, students must guide Transtar, an alien spaceship, across space by applying transformations to it. At the same time, there are dangers to avoid and the number of moves and tries are limited.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Types of Transformations Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Transformations move and modify geometric shapes. There are several types of transformations that all transform figures in different ways. These transformations can...
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Activity
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Plane Geometry: Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore transformations of a polygon that include: 1) translation 2) rotation 3) reflection and 4) dilation.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Comparing and Explaining Transformations

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations, students will be able to develop algebraic representations for rotations and generalize and then compare and contrast the properties of congruence transformations and...
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level electrical physics course highlighting Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Course introduces the physics of Lorentz contraction, time dilation, the "twin paradox", and E=mc2. Course features suggested readings,...
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Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Twin Paradox Program

For Students 9th - 10th
This model permits manipulation of variables in order to observe the effects of time dilation on twin objects, one moving and one not, as shown in a spacetime diagram.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Is Time Travel Possible?

For Students 9th - 10th
Time travel is a staple of science fiction stories, but is it actually possible? Colin Stuart imagines where (or, when) this fascinating phenomenon, time dilation, may one day take us. [5:04]

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