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Recognise and Draw Reflections

In this worksheet, students will recognise and draw reflections of shapes in a mirror line.

'Recognise and Draw Reflections' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 3

Year:  Year 7 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Geometry and Measures

Curriculum subtopic:   Identify and Describe Translations, Rotations and Reflections

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

In this activity, we will look at reflections in mirror lines. 

 

Reflection belongs to the transformation family. The others are rotation, translation and enlargement. 

 

According to the dictionary, a reflection is an image you can see in a mirror or glass or water.

 

We show the mirror line with a dashed line  - - - - - - - - - -

 

 

 We can see that the image is the same size and shape and the same distance away from the mirror line. 

 

Let's look at another reflection.

 

Example

Draw the image of the shape reflected in the mirror line:

 

 

Answer

To make this easy, we plot the points by counting the distance each point is from the mirror line.

See below:

 

 

Then we join them up to form the image:

 

 

We can see that the two shapes are:

1)  the same size

2)  the same distance from the mirror line

3)  facing opposite directions (some people call this 'flipped')

 

Let's try some questions!

 

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