Lesson Plan: Translations on a Coordinate Plane Mathematics • 8th Grade
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to translate points, line segments, and shapes on a coordinate plane.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- understand translation on a coordinate plane as the movement in the direction of the and the movement in the direction of the ,
- understand the coordinate transformation that represents a translation,
- translate points, line segments, and shapes on the coordinate plane given the coordinate transformation of the translation.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- points on a coordinate plane,
- negative numbers.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- converting between coordinate transformations and translations given as magnitudes and directions.
