Reflections worksheet for Pre-Algebra
Pre-Algebra reflections happen on a coordinate grid. This sheet mixes the x-axis, the y-axis and y = x with lines like y = -x, x = 2 and y = 3. A whole figure is reflected one vertex at a time, and then the image points are joined in the same order.
Also taught in Geometry, at its own level and with its own examples.
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How to do these
Reflect triangle across the -axis
- The x-axis is the mirror, so each x stays the same.
- Each y changes sign: 1 becomes -1 and 6 becomes -6.
The answer is .
Where students go wrong
Sliding the figure across the mirror line instead of flipping it. Each image point must be the same distance from the line as the original point, on the opposite side, so a point 6 units above the x-axis lands 6 units below it.
Also called reflecting points, reflection over the x-axis or reflection over y = x.
What you can put on this worksheet
- On a grid, with the image drawn
- Draw the image of the triangle after a reflection in the -axis. →
- Reflecting over an axis or y = x
- Reflect over the -axis. →
- Over x = a, y = b and y = -x
- The point is reflected across . Give the coordinates of the image. →
- Over y = -x, x = a or y = b, on a grid
- Reflect over the line . →
- A figure given as a list of vertices
- Reflect the points across the -axis:
. List the image of each point. → - Name the reflection and write its rule
- Name the transformation and write its rule. → Reflection across the line :