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Shape Quest
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Game Info for Teachers
COMBINED RATING
3.6 Stars
TEACHERS (30)
3.8
STUDENTS (3633)
3.4
LENGTH
16 Minutes
GRADES
6
7
8
CAPABILITIES
Text-to-Speech Support
Description
Shape Quest is a game that teaches congruence through shape transformations. Set in outer space, the students need to translate, rotate, and reflect objects so that they reach their targets.
Vocabulary Words
rigid motion
translation
rotation
reflection
superimpose
congruent pair
length
angle
Instructions
Play through this interactive game to learn about Congruence with Transformations. Suitable for Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.
Main Concepts
Experiment with translations (sliding a figure in a particular direction for a particular distance), rotations (rotates around a particular point called the center of rotation) and reflections (flipping a point or figure over a particular line called the line of reflection).
Two figures are considered the same if one can be superimposed on the other.
Verify experimentally what happens after a figure goes through different transformations.
A sequence of rigid motions taking figure A to figure B, can also find a sequence taking figure B to figure A.
Reflections, rotations, and translations, and compositions of these, are called rigid motions.
Two figures in the plane are said to be congruent if there is a sequence of rigid motions that takes one figure onto the other
Given two congruent images not on a coordinate plane, use two transformations to make the pre-image be superimposed on the second image.
Discussion Questions
Before the Game
What is rigid motion? What does congruent mean? What is a rotation, reflection, and translation?
After the Game
What is superimposition? Does the order of transformation matter? What is true about the size and shape of a figure after a rigid motion transformation?
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Game Details
Difficulty
Content Integration
Lexile Level
705
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