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Instructional Strategies - Tech Support - Assessment

Objective:​ ​Using technology when needed, math 2 students will be able to identify and
perform transformations on figures in the plane with 85% accuracy.

Bloom’s:​ Apply

Instructional Description of Technology Appropriate

Strategies Strategy Use Support Assessment

Presentations Do a presentation on Create the Create an Answer

the different kinds of presentation on a Garden for each
transformations that PowerPoint. transformation type
students will be and have students
working with. submit answers to
Students could “What is a
complete guided translation?” or
notes during the “What is a
presentation. rotation?”
Project answers on
the board.
(​AnswerGarden​)

Demonstrations Teacher completes a Use the document Project an example

couple examples of camera to make or two on the board
transformations on a sure all students and have students
figure in front of the can see the tell you what the
class. example being transformations are
completed while to get to the image
talking through the or the points of the
steps. image under certain
transformations.

Drill-and-practice Show the class many Create a poll for The quick
images of each question assessment of
transformed figures where students can student responses
(before and after select the will allow the
transformation) and transformations teacher to give
have them respond they think have immediate
with the been applied. feedback or
transformations that remediation based
have been applied to on class results.
the figure.

Tutorials Have students use The use of Students will submit

Khan Academy computers and the final page of the
Courses on Khan Academy will Khan Academy
transformations and allow them to go at Course on
 complete the practice their own pace and transformations
section. receive feedback after they have
and opportunities completed the
for support. practice questions.
(“Identify
Transformations”)

Discussions After completing a Use a document The student

worksheet on camera to project presentations will
transformations the the worksheet on be a form of
teacher can lead a the board and have informal
discussion on the some students assessment and
techniques used to come up and teach the teacher will ask
answer the questions. their process to the questions to the
Students can share class. class as a whole to
their methods and look for
this can help others. understanding.

Problem-based Provide students with Find/create a Have a worksheet

Learning a scaled “blueprint” scaled blueprint that has different
(simplified) on graph online. You can use requests from the
paper of a house and excel to create a future homeowners
it’s land area around floorplan and share regarding
it. Then have certain it with students so alterations to their
requests from the they can floorplans. Students
future homeowners manipulate the will turn in this
about enlarging, measurements worksheet for
moving, shrinking, or themselves and try assessment.
rotating a pool in the out transformations.
backyard or some
other part of the I created an
house. example floor plan
below:
https://docs.google.
com/spreadsheets/
d/1NywQaVfVdlJrr
QkVr_PFw3343S8a
_z8OKTguiTwbGJA
/edit?usp=sharing

Cooperative Put students in Groups can use the The category

Learning groups of mixed document camera posters will be used
ability level to to show their as an informal
complete a categories and assessment as
categorization activity explain their students present
where students have reasoning for their findings.
 images of placing some of the
transformations that examples in certain
they have to put in categories.
categories of
translation, dilation,
rotation, reflection.
(“Transforming 2D
Figures”)

Gaming Students will play The use of Desmos Because Desmos

“Transformation Golf” is the assisting has a dashboard
on Desmos. The goal technology. Instead where you can
is to use of having students observe student
transformations to do this on paper progress, this can
move figures in the they will be able to be used to assess
plane to line up with easily manipulate students. You can
their image. the shapes through check their
the graphing tools. achievement based
(“Transformation Golf: on how many they
Rigid Motion”) have succeeded at
out of the number
they have
attempted.

Simulations Students will Use the “Rotations, Students will be

manipulate Reflections, and given an exit ticket
mathematical models Translations” that will have a
to explore what Gizmo to allow figure graphed on
happens under students to choose one side and a
certain certain blank coordinate
transformations. transformations and plane for the to
observe what graph the image of
(“Rotations, happens to the the figure under a
Reflections, and figures they begin certain
Translations Gizmo”) with. transformation.

Discovery Graph many figures Use Desmos to Students will turn in

and their images and graph the figures. the discovery
write points down in a Then use students worksheet with their
table on a worksheet. algebraic notation work on it.
Include original figure rules they came up
and image with to transform
coordinates. Have the points.
students do this for
many points in the (​Desmos Graphing
figure and see if they Calculator​)
can identify a rule that
could be applied to
any point in the figure
to get to the image.
Do this to have them
discover algebraic
notation for
transformations of
figures in the plane.
 Works Cited

AnswerGarden​, Creative Heroes, answergarden.ch/.

Desmos Graphing Calculator,​ Desmos, Inc. , www.desmos.com/.

“Identify Transformations.” ​Khan Academy,​ Khan Academy, www.khanacademy.org/

math/basic-geo/basic-geo-transformations-congruence/transformations-intro-
basic-geo/e/identify-transformations.

“Rotations, Reflections, and Translations Gizmo.” ​ExploreLearning : Gizmos,​

ExploreLearning, www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?
method=cResource.dspView&ResourceID=269.

“Transformation Golf: Rigid Motion.” ​Desmos Classroom Activities,​ Desmos, Inc. ,

teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/59b01d08f4d48d0a0ee7526e.

“Transforming 2D Figures.” ​Mathematics Assessment Project,​ Mathematics Assessment

Resource Service, University of Nottingham, www.map.mathshell.org/
lessons.php?unit=9365&collection=8.