Rotations

We turn our papers when drawing rotations to help us get an idea of what the new figure will look like.This helps to predict where and how the rotation will turn out because if for example, a triangle was in quadrant one and I had to rotate it clockwise 90 degrees, I would just turn my paper clockwise so that the figure would appear to be in quadrant four.A rotated figure does not change in size nor shape.It just changes in location.A rotated figure is different from a reflected one because when you reflect a figure it is just flipped over the x or y-axis.But when you rotate a figure, your turning the figure either clockwise or counterclockwise, and draw it in another quadrant.If we rotate a figure 90 degrees clockwise and then rotate it again 90 degrees counterclockwise, the figure will end up in the same place it was in in the first place.If we rotate a figure 360 degrees counterclockwise, the figure will also end up in the same place as it first began.There is no difference when you rotate a figure 180 degrees counterclockwise or clockwise.