Name: Jillian Megan Date: 210211

Student Exploration: Translations

Vocabulary: image, matrix, preimage, translation

Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.)

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1. Ron lives at the corner of 2nd Avenue and 4th Street.
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PARK
A. Mark the location of his home on the map to the S
right. Label the point “Home.”
HOME

B. Ron leaves home and walks 3 blocks east and

then 2 blocks south to the library. Mark this point LIBRARY
on the map and label it “Library.” Where is the
library located?

5th Av, 2nd St

2. Ron walks from the library to a park at the corner of Norte Avenue and 6th Street. Mark this
point on the map and label it “Park.” Describe a path he can take if he makes only one turn.

5 blocks west, 4 blocks north

Gizmo Warm-up
When you move a point to a different location on the coordinate
grid, you are performing a translation of the point. The
Translations Gizmo allows you to translate a variety of figures.

1. Be sure Point is selected from the Figure type menu.

A. Under Translation, drag the x slider to the right and then to the left. Notice that you
now see point J. Point J is the translated image of point A (the preimage).

How does point J move? sideways

B. Now drag the y slider to the right and left. What happens to point J?

J moves up and down.

2. Drag point A around the grid. How does point J move?

J moves along with A so its initial position changes

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 Activity A: Get the Gizmo ready:
Translating  Be sure Point is selected in the Figure type
geometric figures dropdown menu.

1. Recall that point J is the translation of point A.

A. Mouseover point A. Look at the matrix (rectangular array of numbers) under

Preimage matrix. How is the preimage matrix related to the coordinates of A?

It's the coordinates of A on the plane

B. What will the preimage matrix look like when point A has coordinates  _____
(8, 5)? Fill in the blanks to the right, and then check your answer in  8 
the Gizmo by entering the numbers under Preimage matrix. (Click on  
a number in the text field, type in a new value, and hit Enter.) 5 
 _____
 
C. Under Translation, set x to 4 and y to –2. Mouseover point J. How can you use the
translation values to get the coordinates of point J from the coordinates of point A?

In this case, move the new image 4 numbers right, then 2 numbers down
(to get point J).
2. Select Segment from the Figure type dropdown menu.

A. How is the preimage matrix related to AB ? AB is the preimage matrix (segment)

B. Drag point A to (–4, 6) and point B to (3, –7). Find the coordinates of points J and K if
x is set to 7 and y is set to –3. Show your work. Check your answers in the Gizmo.

Point J: (3,3)
Point K: (10,-10)

C. Select Show ruler to open both Gizmo rulers. Attach one ruler’s “donuts” to points A

and B, and the other ruler’s “donuts” to points J and K. What is true about AB and

JK ? both AB and JK are the same length and size (14.76)

D. Drag points A and B around and experiment with different x- and y-translation

values. Is AB always congruent to JK ? Yes Explain. To "translate"

would be the movement of a "preimage matrix" to new coordinates so no
matter the new coordinates, it'll (JK) always maintain its orig. figure or length/size.
(Activity A continued on next page)

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Activity A (continued from previous page)

3. Select Triangle from the Figure type menu. Under Translation, set both x and y to 0.

A. Fill in the blanks to the right to show the preimage  _____

-4 2
_____ -5 
_____
matrix if the vertices of ΔABC are at A(–4, 3), B(2, 5), 
and C(–5, –4). Enter the values in the preimage matrix  
in the Gizmo. Then sketch ΔABC on the grid below. 3
 _____ 5
_____ -4 
_____
 
B. Suppose each vertex of ΔABC is translated 5
units to the right and 4 units down to get the
vertices of ΔJKL. What translation values
should you use in the Gizmo to show this B
translation?
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x= 5 y= -4 K
C. Sketch ΔABC and ΔJKL on the grid to the
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right. Then check your graph in the Gizmo.
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D. Does ΔABC appear to be congruent to ΔJKL?

yes Check your answer in the Gizmo.

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4. Solve each of the following problems. Write your steps in the space below each problem.
Then check your answers in the Gizmo.

A. Suppose AB is translated 1 unit left and 6 units up to JK . If the endpoints of JK

are J(–8, –1) and K(–3, 7), where are the endpoints of AB located?
= A(-7,-7) and B(-2,1)
I put the translation coordinates as: x(-1),y(6). Next I dragged AB till I met the
coordinates of JK.
B. Suppose ΔABC is translated 8 units right and 4 units down to ΔJKL. If the vertices of
ΔABC are located at A(–6, –4), B(12, –9), and C(8, 10), where are the vertices of
ΔJKL located?
= J(2,-8), K(20,-13), L(16,6)

I put the numbers with translation coordinates as: x(8),y(-4); to find out the new image.

C. Suppose point A is at (7, 4) and point J is at (3, 8). Find the x- and y-translation
values needed to translate point A to point J.
= x(-4), y(4)

I minused the coordinates of J from point A.

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 Activity B:
Get the Gizmo ready:
Translations and
 Under Figure type, select Point.
matrices

5
1. With Point selected, set the Preimage matrix to   . Under Translation, set x to 8 and y
  3
to 4. Examine the matrix equation displayed above the graph.

A. Compare the first matrix to the Preimage matrix. What do you notice? The first
matrix's location is the translation coordinates with the preimage matrix.

B. How do the elements in the second matrix relate to the x- and y-translation values?

The second matrix are the x and y translation values.

The second matrix is the translation matrix.

C. How do the elements in the third matrix relate to the coordinates of point J? The
third matrix are the translation coordinates The third matrix is the image matrix.
of point J
D. How does each element in the image matrix relate to the corresponding elements of

the preimage and translation matrices? Each element represents the preimage
and translation matrices' coordinates in array of numbers/on a plane.

E. Experiment with other points and translations in the Gizmo. Is the image matrix

always the sum of the preimage matrix and the translation matrix?

2. Select Segment from the Figure type menu.

A. Notice that the translation matrix now has 2 rows and 2 columns, and that the

numbers in each row are the same. Why does this happen? There are only
2 points in a segment and each rows/columns represent each.

B. What do you think the translation matrix for a triangle will look like? Triangles
have 3 points so there would be 3 rows and 2 columns x&y for each element.
Select Triangle from the Figure type menu to check.

(Activity B continued on next page)

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Activity B (continued from previous page)

3. The matrix equation shown to the 5  1 4   6  6  6  1  7 2 

right describes a translation.   +   =  
6 7  2   3  3  3  3 4  5

A. What type of figure is being translated?

B
Triangle A
K
B. Look at the translation matrix. How does the J
translation matrix tell you to move the figure?

To move left, and then down

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C. Sketch the preimage (ΔABC) and image (ΔJKL)
on the grid to the right. Check your answer in
the Gizmo.

4. Segment AB shown on the grid to the right is translated

7 units right and 8 units down to JK .

A. In the space below, write the matrix equation for B

zthis translation.
A
A B J K
-5 1 + 7 7 = 2 8
K
2 4 -8 -8 -6 -4
J
B. Use the image matrix to help you sketch JK on
the grid. Check your answer in the Gizmo.

5. In the space below, write the matrix equation for the L

translation shown on the graph to the right (ΔABC is
the preimage). Check your answer in the Gizmo. J
A(-1,1), B(5,-3), C(4,3)
C
J(-3,6), K(3,2), L(2,8)
A K

A B C J K L
-1 5 4 + -2 -2 -2 = -3 3 2 B

1 -3 3 5 5 5 6 2 8

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