Year 6 · Maths

Draw Translate Shapes

Year 6 learners practise translating and reflecting shapes on a grid.

The activities include Find Missing Coordinates to Complete a Shape, Identify Translations on a Grid, Move Shapes on a Grid, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, interactive, lesson, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

Find Missing Coordinates to Complete a Shape
Identify Translations on a Grid
Move Shapes on a Grid
Plot Simple Shapes on Coordinate Grids
Practise Moving Shapes on a Grid
Practise Reflections on Coordinate Axes
Practise Translations on Coordinate Grids
Reflect Points on a Grid
Reflect Shapes on Coordinate Grids
Translate Triangles on a Coordinate Grid

Checked learning resources

Draw and translate simple shapes on the full coordinate grid

Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

Oak Year 6 lesson explains horizontal then vertical translation and that translated shapes stay the same size.
Coordinates - reasoning about position and shapes

Mathsframe · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

Free KS2 interactive resource for identifying coordinates of a shape following a reflection or translation on coordinate grids.
PlanIt Maths Y6 Position and Direction Lesson Pack Transformations (3) - translating coordinate shapes, Position and Dir

Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

matched: translation, shape, grid; trusted source; year6/KS2 signal
Draw And Complete Simple Shapes By Plotting Positions On The Full Coordinate Grid worksheet and quiz downloads

Oak National Academy · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

Free worksheet, starter quiz and exit quiz downloads for the Oak lesson Draw And Complete Simple Shapes By Plotting Positions On The Full Coordinate Grid.
Identify Translations on a Grid

Corbett Maths · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

matched: identify, translations; trusted source; year6/KS2 signal
Translate points

Khan Academy · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

Practice translating points on the coordinate plane, reinforcing x/y coordinate changes used for triangle vertices.
Translating shapes

Khan Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

Explains drawing the image of a shape after a translation on a coordinate plane.
Draw and translate simple shapes on the full coordinate grid worksheet and quiz downloads

Oak National Academy · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

Free worksheet, starter quiz and exit quiz downloads for the Oak lesson Draw and translate simple shapes on the full coordinate grid.