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Combined Transformations
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of combined transformations, from drawing symmetrical patterns to using matrices to perform shears.
Combined transformations pack one contains twelve work cards with a wide variety of activities covering drawing symmetrical patterns, drawing tetrominoes, moving pictures by manipulating the coordinates, sorting letters by their properties of symmetry, and completing a Venn diagram based on the symmetries of shapes.
Combined transformations pack two contains eight work cards with activities requiring students to investigate what happens when transformations are combined, look at the symmetries of 3-D shapes, analyse symmetry in cross-stitch patterns, use vectors to transform triangles, use matrices to transform shapes, transform shapes in all four quadrants, explore isometries, and perform shears.
SMILE (Secondary Mathematics Individualised Learning Experiment) was initially developed as a series of practical activities for secondary school students by practising teachers in the 1970s. It became a complete individualised scheme based around a network of activity cards and assessments.
Related resources include answers to all of the cards and test books and answers.
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