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Virginia Standards of Learning
5th Grade
Geometry
5.15a The student, using two-dimensional (plane) figures (square, rectangle, triangle, parallelogram, rhombus, kite, and trapezoid) will recognize, identify, describe, and analyze their properties in order to develop definitions of these figures

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Lessons (4)

Emerging Patterns

Students consider the patterns that emerge from agent models and geometric fractals.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Discrete, Geometry, Modeling

Related Topics: agent modeling, fractals, pattern, recursion, self-similarity

Tessellations: Geometry and Symmetry

Examines plane symmetry.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Geometry

Related Topics: angles, area, geometry, glides, hexagon, illusion, length, pattern, planes, polygon, rectangles, reflections, regular, rotation, segment, squares, symmetry, tessellations, transformation, translation, triangle

Transformations (Elementary)

This lesson shows elementary students how they can know, for certain, that rigid motions like reflections, rotations, and translations create a shape congruent to the original.

Audiences: Grades 3-5

Primary Subjects: Geometry

Related Topics: congruent, reflections, rotation, transformation, translation

Translations, Reflections, and Rotations

Introduces students to concepts of transformations.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Algebra, Geometry

Related Topics: angles, cartesian coordinate, coordinate plane, coordinate system, dimension, distance, flips, geometry, glides, graph, hexagon, image, parallelogram, pattern, planes, polygon, pre-image, reflections, rotation, squares, symmetry, tessellations, transformation, translation, transpose, triangles

Activities (1)

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Transmographer

Explore the world of translations, reflections, and rotations in the Cartesian coordinate system by transforming squares, triangles and parallelograms. Parameters: Shape, x or y translation, x or y reflection, angle of rotation.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Geometry, Graphs

Related Topics: cartesian coordinate, coordinate plane, coordinate system, flips, geometry, glides, graph, hexagon, image, polygon, pre-image, reflections, rotation, symmetry, transformation, translation, transpose, triangle