I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving.  Our family tradition is to make ravioli the night before with all of my extended family.  I’ve made ravioli since I can remember.  This year, my son rolled out his first batch of ravioli … and the tradition continues to the next generation.  On Friday, I went shopping with my mom and two sisters, another tradition.

A Thanksgiving family tradition - Making Ravioli
Making Ravioli – a Thanksgiving family tradition

Now it is Sunday night and I am looking over my lesson plans for the week.  We are currently studying transformations in geometry.  When introducing the transformations, I made reference to driving a car:

Rotations: Turning the steering wheel left or right

Reflections: Seeing the image in the rear-view mirror

Translations: The car moving down the road

I also had the students raise their hands in the air and we rotated, reflected and translated our hands.  My students told me that I had jazz hands for the translations.  Using hand movements helps my kinesthetic learners as well as my English Language Learners.

Use hands to model geometric transformations: Mathberry Lane
Mathberry Lane: Use hands to model geometric transformations

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