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Monday, 10 March, 2025

WALA: Rotation of shapes
WALT: Rotate shapes about the origin
Describe rotations fully about the origin
Identify reflection symmetry in 3-D
solids
Key vocabulary: rotate, clockwise, centre,
Anticlockwise etc
 Rotation
In order to rotate an object we need 3 pieces of information
• Centre of rotation
• Angle of rotation
• Direction of rotation
In order to find the image, using this information it is
best to use tracing paper.
 Rotation

• Centre of rotation
• Angle of rotation 90o
• Direction of rotation clockwise
Put a piece of tracing paper
over the drawing
Copy the object onto the
A A tracing paper
’ Put a pencil on the tracing
paper – point at the centre
X
of rotation
Rotate the tracing paper
by the required amount in
the specified direction
Note the end point of the object.
Remove the tracing paper and
draw the image and label it.
 Rotation

• Centre of rotation
• Angle of rotation 30o
• Direction of rotation clockwise
If you are asked to rotate and object
30o by an angle that you have to measure
A follow the same steps and:
A ’
Mark a line from the centre of rotation
to use as 0o and also mark this on the
X
same place on the tracing paper.
Before putting the tracing paper on
measure the required angle, and draw
a line accordingly.
Now do these
Rotation
Rotate A :
y-axis
a)90o c/w about the origin 10
9
and label it ‘a’
o 8 x
b) 180 c/w about the origin f 7
and label it ‘b’ d
o x 6
c) 90 anti c/w about the 5
origin A
4 g
and label it ‘c’ 3
o
d) 90 c/w about the (2,2) 2 x a
and label it ‘d’ x 1
o
e) 90 anti c/w about the (-2,1) e
x x-axis
-10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
and label it ‘e’ -1
f) 90o anti c/w about the (-4,6) -2
and label it ‘f’ c
-3
o
g) 90 anti c/w about the (1,8) -4
and label it ‘g’ -5
b
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
 Rotation
Finding the centre of rotation Draw a line from each point
B to the corresponding point
Object on the image.
C Draw the perpendicular
A bisector for the connecting
75o x lines.
The centre of rotation is
C’
where the perpendicular
bisectors cross.
75o anticlockwise
Image
A The alternative (easier) method
’ B’ is to trace the object onto tracing
paper and use trial and error
Now do these
Rotation
Find the centre of rotation for
each of these rotations
y-axis
10
9
a)A onto B
8
o
90 c/w centre (0,0) 7
b)A onto C H E
6
180o c/w or ac/w centre (0,0) 5
c)A onto D 4
o o A
270 c/w or 90 ac/w centre (0,0) 3
d)D onto B D
2
o o
270 c/w or 90 ac/w centre (0,0) 1
e)B onto F
G -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 x-axis
90o c/w centre (2,-2) -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3
-1
f)A onto E -2
o
90 ac/w centre (2,6) B
-3
g)C onto G C F
-4
90o c/w centre (-2,-1) -5
h)H onto A -6
o
180 c/w or ac/w centre (0,4) -7
i)B onto E -8
180o c/w or ac/w centre (4,2) -9
j)D onto C -10

90o ac/w centre (0,0)

Worksheet 1
Rotate shape A :
Rotation
Find the centre of rotation for
a)90o c/w about the origin
each of these rotations
and label it ‘a’
o
b) 180 c/w about the origin
a)A onto B
and label it ‘b’
o b) A onto C
c) 90 anti c/w about the
c) A onto D
origin
d) D onto B
and label it ‘c’
o e) B onto F
d) 90 c/w about the (2,2)
f) A onto E
and label it ‘d’
o g)C onto G
e) 90 anti c/w about the (-2,1)
h)H onto A
and label it ‘e’
o i)B onto E
f) 90 anti c/w about the (-4,6)
j)D onto C
and label it ‘f’
g) 90o anti c/w about the (1,8)
and label it ‘g’
10 10
9 9
8 8
7 H 7
6 6
5 5
A 4 4
3 3 A
D
2 2
1 1
-10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
-10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5G
-1 -1
-2 -2
-3 -3 B
C F
-4 -4
-5 -5
-6 -6
-7 -7
-8 -8
-9 -9
-10 -10