Exploring Translations

Activity Move the horizontal and vertical and Describe the translation
[b]Reset the construction before starting each question[br][/b][br]1) Translate triangle ABC three units to the right. Write the coordinates A'. What happened to the x-coordinate? What happened to the y-coordinate?[br][br]2) Translate triangle ABC two units down. Write the coordinates B'. What happened to the x-coordinate? What happened to the y-coordinate?[br][br]3) Translate triangle ABC three units left and then four units up. Write the coordinates A', B', and C'. What happened to the x-coordinates? What happened to the y-coordinates?[br][br]4) Translate triangle ABC one unit right and then three units down. Write the coordinates A', B', and C'. What happened to the x-coordinates? What happened to the y-coordinates?[br][br]What patterns did you notice about the x and y coordinates in each translation? [br][br]How would we represent this algebraically? [br]

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