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Reasoning with
Transformations (reflection
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Year 6
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Tutor / Teacher / TA notes

Question Set 1: Identifying translation

Question Set 2: Reflecting shapes in a mirror lin

Question Set 3: Translating shapes to given coordinates

Key Skills

Understanding how to make an image symmetrica

Understanding how to identify a translatio

Performing reflections in a mirror lin

Plotting and reading coordinate

Translating shapes to given coordinates

Key Words:

Symmetrical: When two or more parts are identical after a flip, slide or turn

Reflection: An image or shape as it would be seen in a mirror

Translation: "Sliding": moving a shape without rotating or flipping it. The shape

still looks exactly the same, just in a different place

Vertex: The point at which two or more lines intersect. Plural: vertices

Coordinates: A set of values that show an exact position. On graphs it is usually

a pair of numbers: the first number shows the distance along, and the second

number shows the distance up or down.

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Slide 1: Fluency

Teaching prompts

1) How do we make something symmetrical? (by making one side a reflection of the

other)

2) What is a translation? ("Sliding": moving a shape without rotating or flipping it.

The shape still looks exactly the same, just in a different place.)

Watch out for

Pupils not counting the full distance in a translation and only the gaps in between.

Help pupils with this by identifying one vertex and placing a dot on this vertex on

both shapes.

Answers

1)

2) three squares to the right

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Slide 2: Let’s try this SATs style question

Question Set 1: Identifying translations

Encourage pupils to attempt the question independently.

Teaching prompts

What does it mean for an image to be translated? (It has been moved without

rotating or flipping it. The shape still looks exactly the same, just in a different

place.)

If stuck

Next slide - lets go through it together.

Answers

1 mark for both correct, as shown:

6 squares to the left and 3 squares up

Slide 3: Let’s go through this together

Question Set 1: Identifying translations

Teaching prompts

How many jumps have been made to the left? (6)

How many jumps have been made up? (3)

Watch out for

Pupils not counting the full distance in a translation and only the gaps in between.

Answers

To the left 6

up 3

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Slide 4: Try another one

Question Set 1: Identifying translations

Encourage pupils to attempt the question independently.

Teaching prompts

Can you work out how many squares shape A has moved left and down? (3 down

and 3 left )

Why has one vertex been highlighted? (it is easier to work out how a shape has

travelled by focusing on one vertex.)

If stuck

Draw in the jumps left and down:

Answers

3 squares to the left

3 squares down

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Slide 5: Let’s try this SATs style question

Question Set 2: Reflecting shapes in a mirror line

Encourage pupils to attempt the question independently.

Teaching prompts

How do we make something symmetrical about a mirror line? (draw the reflected

shape the other side)

If stuck

Next slide - lets go through it together.

Answers

1 mark for the design drawn correctly, as shown:

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Slide 6: Let’s go through this together

Question Set 2: Reflecting shapes in a mirror line

Teaching prompts

Can you mark each vertex on the shaded shape?

Watch out for

Pupils not counting the full distance from the mirror line in a reflection, and putting

the shape too close or too far away from the mirror line.

Answers

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Slide 7: Try another one

Question Set 2: Reflecting shapes in a mirror line

Encourage pupils to attempt the question independently.

Teaching prompts

Can you mark each of the vertices on the drawn shape?

Can you work out how far they are from the mirror line?

Can you mark them the same distance away from the mirror line on the other side?

If stuck

Draw in one of the vertices and count squares as an example:

3 squares 3 squares

Answers

1 mark for the shape drawn correctly, as shown:

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Slide 8: Let’s try this SATs style question

Question Set 3: Translating shapes to given coordinates

Encourage pupils to attempt the question independently.

Teaching prompts

What do the coordinates (4,7) mean? (along 4 on the x axis and up to 7 on the y

axis.)

Can you move the shape according to the instruction given?

If stuck

Next slide - lets go through it together.

Answers

1 mark for the shape drawn correctly, as shown:

A
3

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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Slide 9: Let’s go through this together

Question Set 3: Translating shapes to given coordinates

Teaching prompts

Can you work out where each of the other vertices will move to?

Answers

Step 2: A has moved 2 squares right and 4 squares up.

A
3

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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Slide 10: Try another one

Question Set 3: Translating shapes to given coordinates

Encourage pupils to attempt the question independently.

Teaching prompts

Can you mark the new position of vertex A?

A (4,5)
5

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

How many squares up and to the right has A moved? (1 square up and 3 squares to

the right )

Can you mark the rest of the vertices on the translated shape? (see below)

Answers

A (4,5)
5

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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Transformations

(Reflection and Translation)

SATs Revision
Fluency

1 Draw two more circles on 2 Can you describe this

this grid to make the design translation?
symmetrical.

squares to the
Let’s try this SATs style question

1 A triangle is translated from position P to position Q.

Complete the sentence.

The triangle has moved

Q

squares to the left and

P
squares up.

1 mark
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A triangle is translated from position P to position Q.

Complete the sentence.

The triangle has moved

squares to the left and

squares up.

Take one of the vertices of triangle P.

Count how many squares this vertex has moved:

To the left

Up
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The quadrilateral is translated from position A to position B.

The quadrilateral has moved squares to the left

and squares down.

1 mark
Let’s try this SATs style question

2 Here is a part of a shape on a grid.

Complete the design so that it is symmetrical about the mirror line.

mirror line 1 mark

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Here is a part of a shape on a grid.

Complete the design so that it is symmetrical about the mirror line.

2 squares from the mirror line

This is a reflection:

An image or shape as it would

be seen in a mirror.

mirror line

Step 1: Look at how many squares away each vertex is from

the mirror line.

Step 2: Match this on the other side and plot each vertex.

Step 3: Join each vertex to complete the shape.

Try another one

Here is a shape on a grid.

Complete the design so that it is symmetrical about the mirror line.

mirror line 1 mark

Let’s try this SATs style question

3 Here is a shape on a grid.

The shape is translated so that point A moves to (4, 7).

Draw the shape in its new position.

8
7
6
5
4
3
A
2
1

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 mark
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Translation

Here is a shape on a grid.

Sliding or moving a shape without rotating or flipping it.

The shape is translated so that

The shape still looks exactly the same, just in a different place.
point A moves to (4, 7).

Draw the shape in its new position.

Step 1: Mark the new position of point A on the coordinate grid.

8
(4,7) means 4 along the axis and 7 up the axis.

6 Step 2: Work out how the shape has been translated.

4 A has moved squares right and

squares up.

A
3

2 Step 3: Mark each of the other vertices of the new shape.

Step 4: Join the vertices with straight lines.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Try another one

Here is a shape on a grid.

This shape is translated so that point A moves to (7,6).

Draw the shape in the new position.

8
7
6
5
A (4,5)
4
3
2
1

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 mark
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