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This fun mystery activity will make reflections in the coordinate plane exciting for your students. Based off the popular board game Clue, students will be detectives and will have to know reflections in order to find their missing math teacher! Students will reflect points over the x and y axis, y=x, y=-x, vertical and horizontal lines (such as y = 1 and x = -3) during this activity. If they are able to reflect the point given and find a suspect, "weapon", or location, they will be able to mark

Rules, Rules, Rules! It can be so hard to remember all the rules for transformations. This cheat sheet can help with that! This transformations rules cheat sheet has two options- one where students can fill in the rules and one that is print and go with all the rules typed out for students. Rules are typed in the algebraic format and cover translations, rotations, reflections, and dilations. What I loved about this resource is how versatile it is. Maybe you have a class that take a while to copy

These translations task cards are just what you need for your transformations unit! With 28 unique task cards and a student answer sheet (as well as an answer key for you!), your students will be answering a variety of questions over translations. These task cards cover translations rules and descriptions as well as using tables and graphs to find images after translations. What's even better is that I have a freebie lesson over translations. Download these Translations Guided Notes along with

These guided notes are perfect for the first day of teaching reflections. On this first day, students will focus on reflecting images over the x and y axis. The guided notes include three examples with tables and graphs to make it super easy for students to practice reflections. Students will also describe the transformations and write the rules during this lesson. Want more reflections practice? Well visit my store to find a second day of guided notes where students will work on reflecting ove

Need to step up your game with reflections and challenge your students? Well then you are in the right place! These notes focus on more difficult reflections such as reflecting over vertical and horizontal lines ( such as y=3 or x=3) and the lines y = x and y = -x. On this first day, students will focus on reflecting images over the x and y axis. The guided notes include four examples with easy to follow tables and graphs. Students will also write the rules for the transformations during this l

Being a teacher is hard! Make your life easier with this engaging activity bundle that will save you hours of time. Your students will love the variety of activities that you can incorporate in your geometric transformations unit. Also, no need to find a million graphs on the internet with shapes. This activity bundle has too many to count! This activity bundle covers topics like translations, reflections over the x and y axis and y=x and y=-x, rotations around the origin, and dilations using sc

These guided notes make dilations a breeze for your 8th grade math students! These notes include 2 pages of guided notes with an answer key. Students have probably been working on other transformations but in this lesson they will learn about scale factor and compare and contrast to find what kind of scale factors cause a reduction or enlargement. Students will also have easy to read graphs that they will perform dilations on and then label their points on a table. Also, they will learn how to w

These are the perfect guided notes for teaching rotations on the coordinate plane. Students will rotate images clockwise and counter-clockwise about the origin. They will discover the rules for rotating images on a graph and be able to determine the quadrant an image will be in after it is rotated. With easy to follow graphs and tables, this 8th grade math lesson has it all! Let's be honest, rotations are hard! You start with translations and reflections, everything is going well then rotations

This lesson has everything you need to teach translations! These guided notes have three detailed examples where students will be filling in tables, graphing images and pre-images, and writing descriptions and rules for the transformations. With easy to read graphs and tables to record coordinates, your students will be sliding figures all over the coordinate plane! Also, if you download my Translations Task Cards you will have a complete lesson with lots of practice for your students! What I

What teacher doesn't need a quick and easy partner review activity? This transformations review is a perfect way to review translations, reflections, rotations, and dilations. Partner A/B is great for students because they have different problems but the same answers. So students will have to work on their own paper but then they can check with their partner. Also, it's easy to differentiate with one worksheet being slightly more difficult than the other. I love this activity because it leads t

If there is one thing I know about teaching middle school math, it's that finding resources that include good graphs that are easy to read is not an easy task! If you are looking for an activity to practice dilations that also has great graphs this resource is for you! This resource is aligned to the common core standards and is great for practicing finding scale factors of figures dilated on the coordinate plan. Split your class up in to pairs or small groups, cut out the cards, and match the

Description These area of circles and semi circles task cards are just what you need for your circles unit! With 28 unique task cards and a student answer sheet (as well as an answer key for you!), your students will be answering a variety of questions over translations. These task cards are focused just on area to give your students plenty of practice on area. These task cards even include some semi circles, circles on the coordinate plan, and real world questions. Keep in mind my answer key us

This fun rotations activity is a great way to get your students some extra practice on geometric transformations! Students will cut cards out and match with the table, rule, or description given. Then paste their cards and graph the rotations. If your students need extra practice on graphing this is perfect for you! What I love about this activity is that it's different than a lot of other things you see with transformations. There are a ton of different graphing picture activities, but this hel

This bell ringer sheet is just what you need to get your students ready to learn! Print off enough copies for each student at the beginning of week and they will have a great spot to record those bell ringer answers that you post on your board. This sheet is a great way to promote responsibility, as it is up to them to keep track of this paper throughout the week. Also, it can be an easy weekly participation grade to enter in your gradebook! What I love about this bell ringer sheet is it has a