Activity
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Simple Maze Game

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this clever applet to move your robot to safe ordered pairs as it travels to its destination. This all takes place in the first quadrant. Direction are just a click away.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Graphing and the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan helps students understand how to graph ordered pairs on the coordinate plane. Lots of resources are available to teachers and students at this website.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Arithmetic Practice W/ Ordered Pairs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to have students practice simple computation that results in them graphing their answers. If they are accurate they will have a straight line. Students use an interactive...
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: General Coordinates Game

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This applet allows students to practice plotting points and identifying ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. The learning resource consists of the activity, instructions, instructor notes, and additional resources.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Simple Maze Game

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
This applet allows students to practice plotting ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. The learning resource consists of the activity, instructions, instructor notes, and additional resources.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Interactive: Scatter Plot

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Use this interactive applet to input a series of (x, y) ordered pairs and plot them. Parameters such as minimum and maximum value, minimum and maximum y value, and x- and y-scale can be set by the user or determined by the applet.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cricket Thermometers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students investigate the relationship between temperature and number of cricket chirps. They learn to find the other value of a function when given one value of a function. Students use linear regression and plot a set...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Design Graphing Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create a design by connecting points in the coordinate plane. They then program their calculators to display their designs.
Activity
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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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Solutions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this LearningCheck students decide which ordered pairs are solutions of equations in two variables.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Where Should They Hold the Fundraising Party?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn how to create a table of values for a simple linear function and use the table to create a graph on squared paper. They use the graphing calculator to display the ordered pairs and find values of corresponding to values of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: At a Snail's Pace

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students plot a mathematical relationship that defines a spiral. They use technology to create a spiral and to plot a set of ordered pairs.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Discovering the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The student will graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane and use graphing to solve problems involving cartography.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Ordered Pair (Month, Day)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will contribute points in the form of a significant date. (month, day). They will look for vertical and horizontal patterns. Study the list for similiarities and then discover the equation for vertical and horizontal lines.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mapping a Leaf

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students will identify and record ordered pairs from a coordinate plane. They will examine symmetry about the axes, reflections, and symmetry in nature. They understand geometric concepts like area and perimeter, and...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Coordinate Graphing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A lesson that help students visualize coordinate graphing and discover the four quadrants of the coordinate plane. Students will be able to graph ordered pairs and then make conjectures about the values of x and y coordinates and the...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Perimeter Patterns

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this activity, students investigate patterns in ordered pairs generated by constructing a sequence of similar shapes. They then use the patterns and the calculator to predict the perimeter of a specific shape in the sequence.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Arrow an Activiaty for Plotting Points

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are given points to plot in activity center. The points will form an arrow. The teacher can then direct students to change the coordinates to translate the picture. Students practice plotting points, integer operations, and see...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Parallel Horses

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the activity center and the Navigator software, the students will review ordered pairs, and the equations for horizontal, parallel, and perpendicular lines.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Developing Class Pictures

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use the activity center in TI-Navigator to enhance students knowledge of ordered pairs.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Do You See What I See?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students discover how pictures formed by graphing ordered pairs can be stretched and shrunk by multiplying and dividing the coordinates.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Coordinate System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students demonstrate understanding of coordinate system and ordered pairs using Activity Center.
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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.
Interactive
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Looking for the Top Quark

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this interactive graphing game to practice plotting points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plain.