Saturday, August 24, 2019

Geometry

After discussing symmetry we brainstormed ideas about what kinds of things around us might be symmetrical, then we created our own symmetrical pictures by folding and tracing. 
Here are our finished products...
...pretty impressive!

The next step was to use these images to show how a surface can be covered by shapes using translation (sliding the image), reflection (flipping the image) and rotation (turning the image). We did this digitally, using scanned images of our pictures. 

These show TRANSLATION...





These show REFLECTION...





These show ROTATION...
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