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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Coordinate Graphing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces students to Activity Center and is intended to help students develop an initial conceptual understanding of how to plot a set of points using a coordinate grid and to create lists to represent the ordered pairs for...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Chameleon Graphing: Coordinate Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Other

Worksheet Works: Coordinate Picture Graphing

For Students 2nd - 4th
Generate a worksheet for practice in how to plot coordinate pairs as you copy an image. Choose an image, the type of grid, the number of quadrants, and the layout, then download your worksheet in PDF format.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: What's in a Name? Explorations in the Coordinate Plane From

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will plot points in a coordinate plane and reflect those points across the axes using a MIRA and then using the graphing calculator STAT, STAT PLOT, and GRAPH menus graph the image on the graphing calculator screen.
Interactive
BBC

Bb Ci: Exponential Graphs (Higher)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Exponential graphs increase rapidly in the Y direction and will never fall below the X -axis, thus forming a curve.
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Mathematics Archives

Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Polar Coordinates

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a tutorial for Polar Coordinates. After actively involving in the site, students should be able to convert from rectangular coordinates to polar and from polar to rectangular. Students will also be able to plot points...
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Ordered Simple Plot

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The interactive learning activity allows students to plot multiple ordered pairs. Teacher resources are included.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Coordinates and the Cartesian Plane

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
A brief refresher on the Cartesian plane includes how points are written in (x,y) format and oriented to the axes, and which directions are positive and negative. Then students learn about what it means for a relation to be a function...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Lego Introduction to Graphing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use a LEGO ball shooter to demonstrate and analyze the motion of a projectile through use of a line graph. This activity involves using a method of data organization and trend observation with respect to dynamic experimentation...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Coordinate Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get independent practice identifying points, graphing points and equations on the coordinate plane. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Graphing Ordered Pairs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-eight problems present a variety of practice graphing ordered pairs. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution" button to...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plot Polar Coordinates

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Here you will learn how to convert and graph complex numbers in trigonometric or polar form using the polar coordinate system, which is similar in some ways to (x,...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Plot of a Mathematical Expression

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This WebMath site provides an interactive 'solvers' to plot x and y coordinates on a graph.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Cartesian Coordinate Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of the Cartesian Coordinate Plane. Examples are given and various aspects of plotting points and graphing are described.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Scatter Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Graph ordered pairs and customize the graph title and axis labels. Points are connected from left to right, rather than being connected in the order they are entered.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Transformations of Polar Graphs

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to alter graphs in polar coordinates by changing constants and/or functions.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Reading Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Presents an introductory lesson to teach young scholars how to read and plot graphs and determine functions based on graphs.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Simple Coordinates Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Investigate the first quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system through identifying the coordinates of randomly generated points, or requesting that a particular point be plotted.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: General Coordinates Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Investigate the Cartesian coordinate system through identifying the coordinates of a randomly generated point, or requesting that a particular point be plotted.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Pumpkin Graph an Activity for Plotting Points

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are given 3 - 4 points to plot in activity center. Students practice plotting points an can review the coordinate plane.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Plot Four: Positive and Negative Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Plotting points is usually an interesting activity for young scholars. Make it even more interesting and engaging using this game.
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Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra: Graphing Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Through this tutorial, you will learn how to solve equations by graphing them on a coordinate plane. Contains several examples with step-by-step solutions and practice exercises for you to complete and check.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Greg's Grid Graphs

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
This interactive web lesson investigates ordered pairs and how to plot them on a coordinate grid.
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Graphing Activities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Eighteen different graphing activities will teach students how to plot points, draw lines, compare graphs, and problem solve.