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Objectives

  • Students know that dilations map circles to circles and ellipses to ellipses with the same shape.
  • Students know that to shrink or magnify a dilated figure back to its original size from center 0 with scale factor r you must dilate the figure by a scale factor of 1/r.

Prior Knowledge

  • Geometry2-D Shapes
  • GeometryDilation
45 mins 8.G.A.3
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