Grade 10 Math Starter Lesson: Rigid Transformations

Instructions

In this lesson, you will learn about the three rigid transformations and perform and identify transformations in the coordinate plane.

Essential Question: How can you change a figure’s position without changing its size and shape?

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Categorize each transformation from polygon A to polygon B as a rigid transformation or a non-rigid transformation.

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Consider the point P with coordinates (-2, 3). If it is translated 3 units left and 5 units up, the coordinates of P' will be ( , ).

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Instructions

Click a Graph tab (Graph 1, Graph 2, and so on) for each graph you need to plot.
Click on the graph background to add a point. Drag a point or type in x and y coordinates to edit its position. Click on a point to delete it.

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(y, x)

(-x, -y)

(-y, x)

(y, -x)

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Reflection across y-axis

Rotation 90 \degree clockwise around the origin

Rotation 90 \degree counterclockwise

around the origin

Translate 12 units right

Translate 12 units up

Translate 2 units down

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