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Select students who used each strategy described in the Activity Narrative to share later. Aim to elicit both key mathematical ideas and a variety of student voices, especially students who haven't shared recently.
For each diagram, find a sequence of translations and rotations that take the original figure to the image so that if done physically, the figure would not touch any of the solid obstacles and would not leave the diagram. Test your sequence by drawing the image of each step.
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Invite a few students to share their responses with the class. Display each intermediate image in the sequence, and ask other students to explain what that single translation or rotation helped to accomplish. The purpose of this discussion is to highlight the benefits of thinking about one point at a time when setting up a sequence of transformations to take one figure to another.
For each question, describe a sequence of translations, rotations, and reflections that will take parallelogram to parallelogram .
Invite previously selected students to share their transformations Sequence the discussion of the approaches by the order listed in the Activity Narrative. If possible, record and display their work for all to see.
Connect the different responses to the learning goals by asking questions such as:
Tell students that while systematically lining up one point at a time may seem tedious, it will be necessary to prove things about triangles in general in an upcoming unit.
If students are stuck on the idea of translating the second figure and unsure what to do, ask them why translating won't work (the obstacles are in the way) and what other transformation might help (rotating so that it fits between the obstacles).