Rotations: drawing and describing
- The circle as one distance from a centre — 3 tasks
- Two circles, one centre — 3 tasks
- Drawing an image — 3 tasks
- Describing a rotation — 3 tasks
- Building the centre, and when there is none — 6 tasks
- Practice — 26 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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Rotations: Does It Name One? — Cut & Glue Sort 25 minutes, including the cutting · 5 sheets
12 descriptions of turning a flag, sorted into one rotation, not a rotation and not enough — where “turn F 180° about O” names one with no direction word, turning only the pennant does not, and “turn F 90° clockwise” leaves out the center.
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Rotations: Where Does P Land? — Answer Maze 10–15 minutes · 4 sheets
One page, a compass and a protractor: 8 boxes, each a center O, a flag and a rotation in words, with two points where its tip might land — the right one, and one that fails the compass test (turned about the flag's own corner, or off the circle) or the protractor test (the wrong way round, or the wrong amount).
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Rotations: Turned About O? — Mystery Picture 25–35 minutes · 4 sheets
25 squares, each a point O, a flag and somebody’s drawing of it turned about O: swing a compass from O to check two corners, and fill the square if it is — a flag turned about its own corner, about some other point, slid, or redrawn a different shape stays white.