AC9M5SP03 Year 5 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 Mathematics provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

describe and perform translations, reflections and rotations of shapes, using dynamic geometric software where appropriate; recognise what changes and what remains the same, and identify any symmetries

Elaborations

• 1 understanding and explaining that translations, rotations and reflections can change the position and orientation of a shape but not the shape or size
• 2 using pattern blocks and paper tracing around a shape and conducting a series of a one-step transformations; continuing to trace each resulting image, then copying the original position and end position on a new sheet of paper
• 3 demonstrating how different combinations of transformations can produce the same resulting image
• 4 challenging classmates to select a combination of transformations to move from an original image to the final image, noting the different combinations by using different colours to trace images
• 5 investigating how animal tracks can be interpreted by First Nations Australians using the transformation of their shapes to help determine and understand animal behaviour

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