Translations: drawing, describing, defining
- Join each point to its image — 3 tasks
- The mark that decides which way — 3 tasks
- Building the image with a compass — 3 tasks
- The three things the arrow tells you — 3 tasks
- Going Deeper — 8 tasks
- Practice — 25 tasks
- Summary — 2 tasks
- Cool-down — 3 tasks
Classroom activities
Things a class does rather than writes on. Each one is a finished PDF: print it, cut it up if it says so, and hand it round.
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Translations: Does It Name One? — Cut & Glue Sort 25 minutes, including the cutting · 5 sheets
12 descriptions of moving a flag, sorted into one translation, not a translation and not enough — where an arrow nowhere near the flag names a translation, flipping over the arrow's line does not, and “slide it 5 cm” does not say which one.
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Translations: What the Arrow Says — Answer Maze 10–15 minutes · 4 sheets
One page and nothing to prepare: 8 boxes about the arrow that names a translation — an arrow nowhere near the flag, the arrow from B to A, a flag beside the arrow's line, a head rubbed out — where the wrong answer is the belief that the arrow is a mark on the page and not the translation, and leads to a box that sends you back.
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Translations: Is It the Image? — Mystery Picture 25–35 minutes · 4 sheets
25 squares, each a flag, an arrow drawn away from it and somebody’s drawing of its image: fill the square if it is the translation the arrow names — the flag flipped over the arrow’s line, sent backwards, sent too far or turned on the way stays white.