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In this Desmos activity, students will use their existing understanding of translations, reflections, rotations, and dilations to complete a round of transformation golf. For each challenge, their task is the same: use one or more transformations to transform the pre-image onto the image. This activity could be used to help teach a lesson on translations. This Desmos activity offers sample student responses and a teacher guide.
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