Geometric Transformations

Today students had the opportunity to show they understood transformations. In the past, I've given each of these assignments as the required test for all students, but planning for to today I realized that each of the assignments would demonstrate they understand the required content, while challenging them in an area they are interested in attempting.

At the end of the hour, all the students were laughing and joking and one student said that this was the most fun they'd had "taking a test". 

I think that the students did a good job of demonstrating their understanding, but I feel that I need to do a better job of including writing in the process as well as figuring out other ways pushing the activities further. But I really enjoyed, listening to the groups talk and reason through the problems using all the transformations we studied during this unit. Examples below.

Students in the process of creating putt-putt courses that use reflections to complete. They would eventually give a clean copy to another group to solve their work (and in turn solve the other group's putt-putt holes). They had Geogebra open on their computer for the other part of their project.

Here students used Geogebra to find the isometries (reflections, rotations, and translations) to create the scene in the lower right from all of the shapes in the plane. They recorded the transformations they used on the paper and then shared their Geogebra file through Google Drive. This activity was adapted from a project that my co-worker shared with me last year.

Like the Geogebra activity above, these students used transformation on the coordinate plane, but in this case they wanted to do it without the technology.

In each of these cases, they needed to identify the proper transformations, use the appropriate tools (or functions), and record which transformations they used.