Transformations!

Transformations can be a tricky thing!  However if you know a few tips it can be made easy.

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For example, if you have to translate a shape it slides.  TranSLate and SLide both had SL in them!  It stays the same shape and direction, it just moves, like sliding downa slide.  That's what i have found to be the easiest thing to stick in the kids heads has I have helped them with this! 

Rotation is rotating a figure around a certain point., as if the figure were dancing in a circle!  Just like on a merry-go-round!  You can sit on the end of the toy and twirl around the center.  All you never change neither will shape.  The corner/side that is facing the middle will always face the middle.

  

Refelction is like a mirror. When the shape gets reflected over a line its like us looking into a mirror.  Its the exact oppisite.  everything is the same but on the other side.