This page contains interactive games and ideas for developing
confidence with transformations. There are a number of
non-iteractive resources involving transforamtions on the site
such as Mirror,
Mirror... and the related activities described in that
problem's accompanying text.
Notes on a triangle
This short film offers opportunities to discuss
transforimations and their effects. Why not select a section of
the film to analyse and recreate.
Transformation game
This card-based game offers opportunities to develop confidence
in the results of different transformations.
Interactive games
and problems which utilise familiatiry with
transformations
Penta Play
These games based on the twelve pentominoes were invented by
Solomon W. Golombwho came up with the idea of polyominoes.
Square tangram
Practice at transforming shapes and making
connections between the ratio of sides of similar shapes
(squares) and areas is a useful short cut to solving the later
stages of this problem.
Some transforma
tion problems
Bow Tie
Tablecloth
This problem linkssymmetry and transformations
with a generalisation related to the numebr of colours. An
interesting mathematical connection.
Matter of Scale
This
problem examines a proof of Pythagoras Theorem using
enlargements and scale factors.