Translation

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It's a MEM'E'.

I did this one for class and then realized that I could replace Pam Halpert (played by Jenna Fischer) with my own character. I went with Annie because it seems more her personality. Actually, I'm not sure what Barbara's personality is. I need to use her more to figure that out.

Obligatory Math (ObMath): When you translate a line, one of two things will occur. The image will either be parallel to the given line, because slope (orientation) is preserved, or you will get the same line because it is moved onto itself. If the number of units in each direction in the translation matches the rise and the run, the images will be points on the original line.

What's your opinion? Once again, I promise I won't delete it. Unless it's spam. Or rude. Or ...

Well, what's your opinion? We can go from there.

And, yes, it's the same comment.

UPDATE: Here was the original meme that I was going to use in class:

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Transformations Joke

It's an old joke, and a licensed property besides, so this is NOT going in a comic. On the other hand, there's no reason why it can't be put into a classroom lesson.

I mean, how can you talk about Transformations without a Transformer?

Transformers are a property of Hasbro. Fair use.

New Quadrant

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If he thought about it, there's a point he could reflect upon.

Unless the point got lost in translation.

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Basic Transformations

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Not that Kitty is not a Rigid Motion because Kitties will change size and shape to fill the available space on your lap.

Seriously, three months ago I made a notation in my notepad that read
"(X, why?) explains transformations: reflection, translation, rotations, kitty."
without any notation what "kitty" was supposed to be.




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Daily Regents: Translating a Function (June 2014)

I'll be reviewing a New York State Regents Exam Question every day from now until the Regents exams begin next month. At least, that is the plan.

June 2014, Question 28

The graph is not required, but it could have been used instead to explain the answer.

The vertex of the parabola represented by f(x) = x² - 4x + 3 has coordinates (2, -1). Find the coordinates of the vertex of the parabola defined by g(x) = f(x - 2). Explain how you arrived at your answer.
[The use of the set of axes below is optional.]

When translating a function, the minus two inside the parenthesis will shift all the points two places to the right. So the vertex (2, -1) in f(x) will be translated to (4, -1) in g(x).

Graphically, it looks like this. You can use the graph with the explanation or alone. However, if you only use the graph, you MUST label the vertex because that is the point that was asked for, along with an explanation. (You made a graph, that shows how you arrived at your answer. A table of values would help also.)

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LOST in Translation

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When students say they tried ''really hard'', I like to know how much.

Obviously, the answer given by the student in the first problem is an approximation to the best of his ability.
The second one would have L'O'S'T' somewhere off the plane, but L"O"S"T" would come back down to reality.

My initial instinct was to have a whole bunch (six? seven?) crazy translations and have the last last one messed up on purpose, but I wasn't sure that people would pick up on that or yell at me for making a "mistkae".


I meant to do that