National curriculum content
Lesson objectives
What we want children to know
What skills we want children to develop
Use knowledge to solve reasoning and problem solving questions such as:
Plotting Points
Plot these points on a grid.
(2, 4) (4, 2) (5, 8) (7, 6)
What shape has been created?
Always, Sometimes, Never
The number of points is equal to the number of vertices when they are joined together.
Pictorial and Concrete Resources
Place a small cube on the grid at coordinate (1, 1).
Move your cube 1 up. Move your cube 1 down.
What do you notice?
Now move your cube 3 to the right. Move your cube 3 to the left.
What do you notice?
Mathematical Talk
Which is the x-axis?
Which is the y-axis?
In which order do we read and plot the coordinates?
Can you describe the translation?
Can you complete the following stem sentence: Shape A is translated ___ left/right and _____up/down to shape B.