Reflecting shapes:

As well as rotating and translating shapes, you can also reflect shapes.

When you want to find how something reflects, you would use a mirror.
With shapes, you need to show where the mirror would be. This place is called the mirror line.

Watch the animation to see how the shape reflects. You can check this yourself by putting a mirror on the mirror line!

You have to be able to draw a reflection of any shape in a mirror line.

Look at how these shapes reflect in the mirror line, and understand what is happening.

You also have to be able to identify which shape is a reflection of another.

Here, which shape is a reflection of shape (1)? Is it shape(2), (3) or (4)? Watch the animation!!


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