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Recognise Rotations

In this worksheet, students will recognise rotations.

'Recognise Rotations' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 3

Year:  Year 8 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Geometry and Measures

Curriculum subtopic:   Identify and Describe Translations, Rotations and Reflections

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

When we rotate a shape there are several important points we need to know or find out!

 

1) Where is the centre of rotation?

This is the point from which we rotate the shape.

 

2) Which direction?

Clockwise or anticlockwise?

 

3) How many degrees is the rotation?

The most common ones are 90o, 180o and 270o

 

Let's have a look at a typical question!

 

Example

Shape A has been rotated.

Write down the centre of rotation, the direction of rotation and number of degrees.

 

rotation of shapes

 

Answer

We can see the centre of rotation is shown below:

 

rotation of shapes

 

The point (0, 6)

 

Next, we can see the shape has turned 90o

 

rotation of shapes

 

In a clockwise direction!

 

In short:

A has been rotated 90clockwise around the point (0, 6)

 

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