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 * Week 3: Transformational Geometry**

By focusing on a variety of activities involving reflections, translations, rotations, and dilations, participants investigate how to use Sketchpad to explore and apply transformational geometry.

Visual Media: Activities: Ferris Wheel Project: Create an animation of a Ferris wheel.
 * "Ferris Wheel" JavaSketch
 * Interview with Nick Jackiw, "Transformational Symmetry"
 * Interview with Karen Wyatt, "Fostering Student Creativity with Projects"
 * Video demonstration with Janet Bowers, "Tour 6: Building a Kaleidoscope"
 * Tour 5: Reflection + Reflection = ?
 * Tour 6: Building a Kaleidoscope
 * The Burning Tent Problem
 * Symmetry in Regular Polygons
 * Tessellations That Use Rotations
 * Similar Polygons

Journal Prompt: Participants are asked to reflect on the relationship between transformational geometry and topics that are traditionally emphasized in high school.

Week 3 Assignments