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 scheme of work, following Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Mathematics, Higher tier (1MA1). Open this topic in Mr Wells Maths to see it alongside the rest of the course.