Essential Understanding: Congruence Transformation
- Author:
- kbailey
- Topic:
- Congruence
Essential Understanding
Two figures are congruent if and only if there is a sequence of one or more rigid motions that maps one figure onto the other.
So what does that mean???
If you can perform a composition of transformations AND the shapes lay on top of each other AND are exactly the same, then they are congruent.
If you perform a composition of transformations AND the shapes don't lay perfectly on top of each other, then the shapes aren't congruent.
That's it!
For the two problems below, perform a composition of transformations. Take a screen shot of your work and insert it into the appropriate google slide. Are the shapes congruent?