Virginia Standards of Learning
8th Grade
Geometry
8.8 The student will apply transformations (rotate or turn, reflect or flip, translate or slide,
Activities (2)
Create your own fractals by drawing a "line deformation rule" and stepping through the generation of a geometric fractal. Parameters: Grid type, number of bending points on the line.
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.