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🧮 8th Grade · Math8.G.A.1Unit 1: Rigid transformations & congruence

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🎯 Objective: Students translate figures and describe the moves with coordinates.

Lesson outline

  1. Slide shapes on grids.
  2. Write rules (x + a, y + b).
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: one translation.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

8.G.A.1

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 8 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe translations, reflections and rotations
  • Use transformations to show congruence

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Rigid transformations & congruence”

  1. Translations
  2. Reflections
  3. Rotations
  4. Congruence
  5. Angles and parallel lines

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