Key learning points

1. It can be helpful to choose a vertex and translate that.
2. Once all the vertices have been translated, the image can be drawn.
3. The image and the object should be congruent.
4. To translate, you need to know the distance left/right and up/down to move.

Keywords

• Transformation - A transformation is a process that may change the size, orientation or position of a shape.

• Translation - Translation is a transformation in which every point of a shape moves the same distance in the same direction.

• Vector - A vector can be used to describe a translation.

• Object - The object is the starting figure, before a transformation has been applied.

• Image - The image is the resulting figure, after a transformation has been applied.

Common misconception