Simple Transformations - Progression Points

Dimension

Level

Progression Point

Space

1.0 Standard

… Students develop and follow simple instructions to move and place shapes and objects in familiar situations in relation to what they can see.

1.5

• Recognition of congruence of two shapes and production of similar figures by enlargement

1.75

• Recognition of whether a single transformation produces a congruent or similar shape, production of simple patterns with transformations (flips, slides, turns), and specification of instructions for movement, including relative position and quarter turns left and right.

2.0 Standard

… Students apply simple transformations to shapes (flips, turns, slides and enlargements) and depict both the original and transformed shape together.

2.25

• Use of instructions to create tessellations such as in paving and brickwork patterns

2.75

• Estimation of angle in terms of quarter turns and half turns

3.5

• Construction of transformed shapes and patterns by stamping, folding and rotating

Working Mathematically

2.0 Standard

… Students make and test simple conjectures by finding examples, counter-examples and special cases and informally decide whether a conjecture is likely to be true.

3.0 Standard

… Students test the truth of mathematical statements and generalisations. For example, in: transformations (the effects of slides, reflections and turns on a shape).