Rotation Summary

Rotation

Summary

a rotation has three components: an object, a centre of rotation and an angle of rotation.

given these three the position of the image can be found.

Key Skills
  • draw the image given an object, the centre and the angle of rotation.
  • name and use the key properties of rotation
  • understand the vocabulary of rotation i.e. what the words mean!

Vocabulary

isometry, indirect transformation, congruent, transformation, image,object, angle of rotation, centre of rotation, perpendicular bisector, mediator, invariant, rotation.