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Moving Shapes Around
Moving Shapes Around
When you slide your phone across a table, that's a translation. When you look in a mirror, that's a reflection. When you spin a fidget spinner, that's a rotation. When you zoom in on a photo, that's an enlargement. These four transformations are how we move and resize shapes in maths!
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Common Mistakes
X Just saying "rotation" without details
Always state centre, angle, and direction
Incomplete description loses marks
X Confusing CW and ACW
CW = clockwise (like clock hands)
ACW = anticlockwise (opposite direction)
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Quiz · Question 1 of 16
A translation is described by the vector (3, −2). What does this mean?
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