Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Coordinate Plane
In this activity, students use the pen feature of the calculator to draw geometric shapes in a coordinate plane.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Cartesian Diver
This PBS site shows users how they can make their own cartesian divers, discover how it works, and have some fun at the same time.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Reflecting a Triangle in the Coordinate Plane
In this activity, students use the drawing and measurement tools of Cabri Jr. to blend coordinate geometry with drawing tools. They visualize symmetry and reflect a point across the y-axis.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Coordinate Plane
Short quiz covering the coordinate plane, axes, quadrants, origin, and plotting points.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: The Coordinate Plane [Pdf]
A graphing calculator lesson on coordinate planes. Detailed examples, demonstrations with key functions, and practice problems included. Acrobat Reader required.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Coordinate Graphing
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rotations in the Plane Cabri Jr: Interactive
In this activity, you will explore the invariant properties of rotations and the results of rotations in the coordinate plane.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Pumpkin Graph an Activity for Plotting Points
Students are given 3 - 4 points to plot in activity center. Students practice plotting points an can review the coordinate plane.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Quadrants in the Activity Center
Students will determine appropriate quadrants given specific instructions of where to move on a the coordinate plane in the TI-Navigator Activity Center
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Transforming "F" on the Coordinate Plane
Students move their cursor in this activity center to occupy a unique point on a background letter "F" in quadrant 1. Students then together follow a rule for going to a different point (such as "use the opposite of the original x...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Reflections on the Coordinate Plane
Use the activity center in TI-Navigator to discover a generalization for reflecting ordered pairs over the x- or y-axis.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Coordinate Grid Geoboards [Pdf]
An activity dealing with making a polygon and getting their coordinates. Materials needed: geoboards, rubber bands, coordinate grid paper and rulers.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Interactive Cartesian Coordinates
The interactive learning activity investigates Cartesian coordinates.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Simple Maze Game
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.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Polar Coordinates
This activity allows the user to explore the polar coordinate system. The applet is similar to GraphIt, but instead allows users to explore the representation of a function in the polar coordinate system.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Simple Coordinates Game
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.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: General Coordinates Game
Investigate the Cartesian coordinate system through identifying the coordinates of a randomly generated point, or requesting that a particular point be plotted.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Graphit
Create graphs of functions and sets of ordered pairs on the same coordinate plane. This is like a graphing calculator with advanced viewing options.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Ordered Simple Plot
The interactive learning activity allows students to plot multiple ordered pairs. Teacher resources are included.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Teaching About and Using Coordinate Systems [Pdf]
Provides lessons and activities for teaching about the different types of coordinate systems including the Cartesian coordinate system, the Geographic Coordinate System, the Universal Transverse Mercator grid, and the State Plane...
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rotations in the Plane
In this activity, students will explore the properties of rotations and the relationships between the original and image figures.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Working With Point Rotations in the Coordinate Plane
Using Cabri Jr. and the properties of rotations to get a true understanding of how a figure is rotated about a point.