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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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Website
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Rotating Parabolas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Dr. Math, in a reply to a student question, shows how to derive the equation of a parabola for situations when the line of symmetry is not || to one of the axes.
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Handout
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Symmetry in Rotation

For Students 9th - 10th
Entry offers a brief explanation of rotational symmetry.
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Website
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Symmetry and Translations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This University of Regina site gives some history and definitions about translations and symmetry.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Symmetry Challenge

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sharpen your logic, symmetry, and pattern recognition skills while working on this challenge. Solution included.
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Interactive
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Shape: Rotational Symmetry

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of rotational symmetry.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Symmetry

For Students 9th - 10th
Get independent practice working with scientific and standard notation. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: 3 D Shapes and Symmetry

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
In this tea store, the boxes all have different shapes! What do you know about shapes?
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Group of Symmetries

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students examine a set of transformations to determine if certain properties (such as associativity and closure) exist for equilateral triangles. Students create tables of...
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Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Point Symmetry

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A definition and examples of point symmetry, as well as links to information on rotational symmetry, reflection symmetry, transformations, and rotation.
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Unit Plan
Science U

Science U: Isometries: Rotation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Science U gives good examples of rotational symmetry and some background information about them.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rotational Symmetry: Lesson 5

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson defines the phrase rotational symmetry. It is 5 of 11 in the series titled "Rotational Symmetry."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rotational Symmetry: Lesson 6

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson defines the phrase rotational symmetry. It is 6 of 11 in the series titled "Rotational Symmetry."
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Activity
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Traslaciones, Simetrias Y Giros

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In Spanish. In this unit you can learn about movements in the plane: translations, symmetry and rotation.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Upside Down (Pdf)

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
What lowercase letters read the same both upside down and right side up? If you have the answer, then you can handle this geometric symmetry math challenge. A one-page activity from the NTCM Math Challenge for Families collection....
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Seven Circles Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, seven pennies are placed in a circle so that they are all touching one in the center and their neighbors. Students are asked to find as many rigid motions of the plane as they can which are symmetries of this configuration...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Geometry in Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students observe symmetry, geometric shapes, and angles in two Early American dances, and then choreograph their own dance with symmetrical figures. Media and teaching materials are included.
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Activity
University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Transformations: Revisiting Congruence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents information on the three basic transformations of figures in a plane: Reflections, Rotations, and Translations.
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Activity
Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Polyominoes Fun With Dominoes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For students who have ever played dominoes and Tetris, polyominoes will strike them as a great deal of fun. Teachers will see the educational benefits of working with similar and congruent shapes and rotating them in a plane. Exploration...
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Handout
Other

Xah Lee: Some Theorems on Rotation and Translation

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
This site is for the purpose of using proofs for geometry. It helps by giving some useful theorems.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Making Conjectures About Congruence Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given geometric figures on the coordinate plane, the student will apply the definition of congruence, in terms of rigid transformations, to identify congruent figures. The student will also identify and distinguish between reflectional...
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Unit Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Chickscope Eggmath: The Shape of an Egg

For Students 6th - 8th
An interactive page offering a view of a rotating egg, information on rotational symmetry, and definitions of related topics.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Ic Teachers: Rotational Symmetry

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website will provide you with a quick review of rotational symmetry. It also has questions and answers to help you understand rotational symmetry.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Ic Teachers: Rotational Symmetry

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website will provide you with a quick review of rotational symmetry. It also has questions and answers to help you understand rotational symmetry.

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