Lesson Plan: Function Transformations: Reflection Mathematics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to reflect a graph on the 𝑥- or 𝑦-axis, both graphically and algebraically.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- identify the graph of a given graph when reflected in the - or ,
- sketch the graph of a given graph when reflected in the - or ,
- understand that corresponds to a reflection of in the ,
- understand that corresponds to a reflection of in the ,
- understand how to combine a reflection in the - and both algebraically and graphically,
- identify the graph of a given function when reflected in the - or .
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- graphing functions.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- rotations,
- translations,
- reflections in an arbitrary line,
- reflections represented as matrices.
