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Title : APPROACHES THAT CAN BE USED TO TEACH THE CONCEPTS OF TRANSFORMATIONS. WENCESLAUS TEHAS (NO. MATRIX : 810628135897002) NO. K/P : 810628-13-5897 NO. TELEFON : 013-8289282 wencelespichin@yahoo.com TUTOR: EN. ZURHANA BIN MOHAMMAD PUSAT PEMBELAJARAN: INSTITUT PERGURUAN MALAYSIA KAMPUS TUN ABDUL RAZAK SAMARAHAN
1.0 Introduction
Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) and James Sylvester (1814-1897) were the earliest mathematicians to write about transformations. Their importance is because sets of transformations can be used to classify geometries. The word transforms means "to change." In geometry, a transformation changes the position of a shape on a coordinate plane. What that really means is that a shape is moving from one place to another. A transformation of a collection of objects is a rule that describes how to transform or "move" each object in the collection. For us, the objects are the points in the familiar coordinate plane and the collection is the plane itself (composed of all its points). A transformation, then, is a rule that describes how to move each of the points in the plane to new locations. Every point has to go somewhere, even if it is just too where it was in the first place. No two different points can go to the same place. On this paper, i will discuss more about some approaches that can be used to teach the concepts of transformations. During this task, Ive found some article which on my opinion is related and comply with the task given.
A rotation is a correspondence between points and their image points where one point is fixed and the image points are transformed at a new angle position. The example below shows 5 rotations of the original shape around the center point:
A reflection is a correspondence between points and their image points so that each image is transformed as a mirror image over a horizontal(vertical or other) line.
A glide reflection is a correspondence between points and their image points where the image points are the product of a reflection and a translation parallel to the fixed line of reflection. This is often used in ornamental patterns - seen especially in the Alhambra in Grenada, Spain.
5.0Reference
http://shodor.org/interactivate/discussions/SymmetryInTesselati/ http://shodor.org/interactive/lessons/TranslationsReflectionsRotations/ http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/2752.html http://www.enlvm.usu.edu/ma/classes/_shared/emready@transformations/info/lessonplan.htm l http://www.math.ubc.ca/~robles/hyperbolic/eucl/isom/