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Handout
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Shifting, Reflecting, Stretching Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides everything you need to know about translating graphs. Plenty of examples and charts and very easy to understand.
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Handout
Cuemath

Cuemath: Vertical Translation

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide for learning all about vertical translation with definitions, solved examples, and practice questions.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Nearpod: Geometric Transformations: Translation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity, students will learn how to identify, describe, graph, and write geometric translations.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Interpreting Stories and Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th
This interactive exercise focuses on how line graphs can be used to represent mathematical data and provides an opportunity to translate actions from a story into graph form, then to write your own story to coincide with a line graph.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Translations of Parent Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity utilizes the TI-Navigator and Activity Center to explore translations of a parent graph.
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Unit Plan
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Algebra: Translate Graphs Horizontally

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the concept of translating graphs by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
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Handout
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Exponential Functions and Their Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The site explains exponential functions and characteristics of their graphs.
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Activity
California State University

Ca State University, San Bernadino: Graphing Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
A survey of math graphing techniques includes horizontal and vertical shifts, stretching, lines of symmetry, even and odd functions, and absolute value functions.
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Activity
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Translations and Reflections of Trigonometric Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Twelve problems offer practice working with the translations and reflections of trigonometric graphs. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Translations of a Square Root Function Graph: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will present how to graph translations of the square root function from the parent function [f(x) = ?x]. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Translations of a Square Root Function Graph." Includes short quiz.
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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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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Rotation, Reflection, and Translation in Dance

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students choreograph a dance figure by creating a dance graph with descriptions of rotation, reflection, and translation; perform it for their classmates; and translate a classmate's dance map into a performance. Media...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Information in Charts and Graphs (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Synthesize information that you find in charts and graphs.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Translation, Rotations, and Reflections

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Translate, rotate, and reflect figures using coordinate notation and graphing in the coordinate plane.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring Quadratic Data With Transformation Graphing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students practice with the parameters of the vertex form of the parabola and their effect on the shape of the curve. They use this concept to find a quadratic model. They also use translation and dilation to change the general parabola.
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Activity
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Graphing Calculator Practice Problems: Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Activity
Windstream

Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Translations of Sine and Cosine Curves

For Students 9th - 10th
This study tutorial covers more advanced graphing of sine and cosine functions, including horizontal and vertical translations (phase shifts and vertical shifts). Includes several examples and graphs.
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Graphic
Hofstra University

New Functions From Old: Scaled and Shifted

For Students 9th - 10th
Includes rules, examples, and sample problems on 6 different types of translations; vertical and horizontal shift, stretch, and reflection. Uses six basic functions (x, x^2, x^3, 1/x, x^1/2, and abs(x)) throughout examples, which makes...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Promethean Planet: Graphing and Interpreting Linear Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart shows students how to plot points on a coordinate plane, create linear graphs and translate linear functions between differing forms.
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Website
United Nations

Unesco: Math Games (In Arabic)

For Students 6th - 8th
This site offers games and lessons that teach basic math concepts such as area and volume, number patterns, time, etc. Games use familiar tasks such as shopping to reinforce math concepts. While the title of each page includes an English...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Analyze the factual, quantitative, and technical data in graphs and charts.
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Handout
Windstream

Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Periodic Functions, Stretching and Translating

For Students 9th - 10th
This online tutorial offers a comprehensive introduction to translating and stretching graphs, and what this implies about the function. Includes lots of pictures and examples.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Function Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Generally, translation involves only moving the graph around. Squeezing or stretching a graph is more of a "transformation" of the graph. But these two topics are usually taught at the same time, and usually under the same name. Just be...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Tf, G Co, Trigonometric Identities and Rigid Motions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task is to apply translations and reflections to the graphs of the functions f(x)=cos x and g(x)=sin x in order to derive some trigonometric identities. There are also rotations 180 degrees about points on the x-axis...