This week your student will learn to describe the movement of two-dimensional shapes with precision. Here are examples of a few of the types of movements they will investigate. In each image, Shape A is the original and Shapes B, C, and D show three different types of movement:
Students will also experiment with shapes and drawings to build their intuition by:
Here is a task to try with your student:
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This week your student will investigate rigid transformations, which is the name for moves (and sequences of moves) that preserve length and angle measures like translations, rotations, and reflections. For example, in this image the triangle
When we construct figures using rigid transformations, we know that the measures of the images of segments and angles will be equal to the measures of the original segments and angles.
Here is a task to try with your student:
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This week your student will learn what it means for two figures to be congruent. Let’s define congruence by first looking at two figures that are not congruent, like the two shown here. What do these figures have in common? What is different about them?
If two figures are congruent, that means there is a sequence of rigid transformations we could describe that would make one of the figures look like the other. Here, that isn’t possible. While each has 6 sides and 6 vertices and we can make a list of corresponding angles at the vertices, these figures are not considered congruent because their side lengths do not correspond. The figure on the left has side lengths 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1. The figure on the right has side lengths 3, 3, 1, 2, 2, 1.
For the last part of this unit, students will use the congruence to investigate some interesting facts about parallel lines and about the angles in a triangle.
Here is a task to try with your student:
Draw two new ovals congruent to the ones in the image.
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IM 6–8 Math was originally developed by Open Up Resources and authored by Illustrative Mathematics, and is copyright 2017-2019 by Open Up Resources. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). OUR's 6–8 Math Curriculum is available at https://openupresources.org/math-curriculum/.