Exploring Translations
Activity Move the horizontal and vertical and Describe the translation
Reset the construction before starting each question
1) Translate triangle ABC three units to the right. Write the coordinates A'. What happened to the x-coordinate? What happened to the y-coordinate?
2) Translate triangle ABC two units down. Write the coordinates B'. What happened to the x-coordinate? What happened to the y-coordinate?
3) Translate triangle ABC three units left and then four units up. Write the coordinates A', B', and C'. What happened to the x-coordinates? What happened to the y-coordinates?
4) Translate triangle ABC one unit right and then three units down. Write the coordinates A', B', and C'. What happened to the x-coordinates? What happened to the y-coordinates?
What patterns did you notice about the x and y coordinates in each translation?
How would we represent this algebraically?