Inverse rotations and combining turns
Mathematics · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
The inverse turns back through the same angle about the same centre. Two rotations about the same centre add their signed angles.
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- Rotating a figure
- Rotational symmetry
- Deriving the 90 degree anticlockwise rule
- 90 degrees clockwise and 270 anticlockwise
- Half-turns of 180 degrees
- Rotation about a point that is not the origin
- Finding the centre of rotation
- Finding the angle and the direction
- Inverse rotations and combining turns
- Rotational symmetry in the environment