What you need to know
Check yourself against these “I can” statements.
- I can translate, rotate and reflect shapes
- I can enlarge shapes, including with fractional and negative scale factors
- I can describe fully a single transformation
- I can find invariant points after a transformation
Practise this topic
3 resourcesFill the Gaps: Maths Vocabulary
A sentence explaining one of the unit’s key words, with gaps. Pick the right word for each gap from the words scattered round it: the right ones and plenty of wrong ones. A deck for every unit.
🕹️ Topic gameTransformation Golf
Eighteen holes of golf on a coordinate grid: every shot is a transformation, and the ball jumps to its image. Five courses: translations (column vectors), reflections (including y = x and y = −x), rotations, enlargements…
🧩 ConnectionsTransformations
Transform points by reflection, rotation, translation and enlargement and group them by where they land. Clockwise and axis traps from Standard; other centres and two-step moves on Hard.
These are the pages for Transformations in the GCSE + AQA Further Maths scheme of work, following Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Higher (1MA1), plus AQA Level 2 Further Mathematics (8365). Open this topic in Mr Wells Maths to see it alongside the rest of the course.