Translation Plotter
April 8th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Teach the translation of shapes using this interactive whiteboard resource. Click on one of the shape buttons to the right of the grid to display the corresponding shape in a random position. A set of instructions for translating this shape will also appear in the blue box. Drag and drop the four circular markers to the translated position of the shape’s corners. If they are placed in the correct position the translated shape will be drawn on the screen.
The instruction box can be dragged to convenient locations on the screen. The translating instructions can be set to words or vectors or both.
Please report any errors in the comments section.
Tags: Shape Space and Measure
5 responses so far ↓
1 Ann Berridge // Apr 30, 2009 at 8:13 am
Great resource to use when teaching translation
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3 Carla Buckle // Jun 18, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I think this website is OK, but it doesn’t tell you a lot of infomation. For e.g. It doesn’t you what a translation is or how to deal with translations in your daily life.
4 admin // Jun 18, 2009 at 10:01 pm
I think you have misunderstood the purpose of the site. No it doesn’t tell you a lot of information and that is not its purpose. It is a site designed to help teach students different things. It assumes that the teacher knows the concept already. The resources are to help the teacher to teach their students how to understand the concept. It is not a self study site.
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