National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Chameleon Graphing: Coordinate Plane
Dive into this introduction to graphing in the coordinate plane, and meet a chameleon named Sam. Sam will help guide you through graphing points on a line, using negative numbers, and graphing points in the coordinate plane.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: Position on a Map
Students will play an interactive game to interpret simple maps by describing position, plotting points with coordinates, and drawing and following a path.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Connecting With Coordinates
This lesson will allow students to practice plotting points on a grid. Students will have an opportunity to play a coordinate game. This lesson is hands-on and allows for cooperative learning. This lesson plan was created as a result of...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Dinosaurs: Angles and Position on a Map
Students will play learning games to practice moving on a coodinate plane.
Other
Center School District: Everyday Math Resources
Everyday Math Resources for 5th grade is an excellent resource for both students and teachers. Twelve math strands are linked to activities and interactive games that support the learning outcomes. Click on links at the top to access...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Riksjas, Toek Toek: Position
Students will play an interactive game to explore maps, routes, and locations of objects.
Doina Popovici
Math Play: Coordinate Plane Basketball Game
A basketball game with multiple choice questions about the coordinate plane system.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Game Criss Cross Quiz
Use this online game to improve your subtraction or addition skills while you play on a coordinate plane gameboard. Gain skills in two areas at the same time! This game can also be altered to practice multiplication facts. There is a...
Doina Popovici
Math Play: Coordinate Plane Jeopardy Game
Students answer questions about graphing points, quadrants and axes, and finding the coordinates of a point in this jeopardy style game.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Coordinate Cunning
Play this game for two and learn how to graph ordered pairs on the coordinate plane at this one page website. You will know right away if you have the correct coordinates.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Think Math
Think Math offers a collection of 43 KET-produced resources from Math at the Core: Middle School, including 17 Scale City videos and interactives about proportional reasoning, 14 Wild Fractions animations and games that feature visual...
Math Playground
Math Playground: Rescue Mission
A game where students determine ordered pairs on a coordinate plane.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Hide and Seek
Play hide and seek with Lion King character Timon in this interactive game where learners practice finding coordinates using ordered pairs. The game is personalized and high scores are posted.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Position and Direction
A large collection of teacher resources dealing with position and direction (coordinates and compass directions). Includes worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, games, presentations, and smartboard files.
Doina Popovici
Math Play: 5th Grade Vocabulary Game
Do you know the definition of some common math terms? Play this game to test your knowledge. Game includes words like: algorithm, associative, attribute, axis, base, coordinate plane, and quadrants.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Bowling for Math Facts
Practice gross motor skills, counting and feelings of self esteem through a milk bottle bowling game.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: What's the Point? (Graphing Skills Game)
This graphing game challenges players to supply the coordinates for points shown on a series of graphs and also to plot pairs of coordinates on simple Cartesian planes.
Channel 4 Learning
Channel 4 Maths: Mathszone
Can you help Ben and Mai escape their captors and foil the robbers' getaway plan? Test your mathematical aptitude in this captivating, interactive, adventure game that uses a PDA/calculator to solve math clues. Students will activate...
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Looking for the Top Quark
Use this interactive graphing game to practice plotting points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plain.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Plot Four: Positive and Negative Numbers
Plotting points is usually an interesting activity for young scholars. Make it even more interesting and engaging using this game.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: Space
Join Otto at the Phantasia construction site. Will you help him build a new playground?
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Wrecks Factor: Factor Simple and Harder Quadratics
In this game, you must send rescuers to ships trapped in the Bermuda Triangle by first decoding their coordinates that were given to you as quadratic expressions. As you decode the coordinates, you must draw a search area on a grid that...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Cyberchase: Echo Explorers
Players explore math concepts and must use echolocation, as well as their skills in mapping and coordinates, to help free the bats trapped in dark caves.
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa
Red Escolar: Figuras Escondidas
Practice graphing by playing a game in the Cartesian coordinates plane.