Here is a picture.  Look at it carefully.

 

Now we're going to rotate it one quarter turn, like from the 12 to the 3 on a clock.  Can you figure out what it will look like?

Answer below.

 

 

 

 

Did you come up with this picture?

 

 

 

          Now let's rotate the first picture a half turn, like from the 12 to the 6 on a clock. Can you draw what you thin the picture will look like?

 

Answer Below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did your picture look like this?

 

 

 

What if we rotated the first picture three-quarters of a turn, like from the 12 to the 9 on a clock?  Can you draw what that would look like?

 

Answer below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did your picture look like this?

 

 

 

Let's try one more thing!  What if we drew a "mirror image" of the first picture, flipping it over sideways?  Can you picture and draw that?

 

Answer Below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did your picture look like this?

 

 

Now you practice some more with these pictures!  Draw them with quarter turns, half turns, three-quarter turns, and mirror images.  It really makes you think, doesn't it!

    

             

 

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