TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Place in Space
The students will use a "real" 3D coordinate system. They will have 3 axes at right angles, and a plane (the XY plane) that will be able to slide up and down the Z axis. The students will then be given several coordinates and asked to...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Triangle Explorer
This applet allows users to study the nature of triangles and their area. It draws random triangles on a Cartesian coordinate system. The user can determine the area of the triangle using his or her preferred method. After the calculated...
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...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Plane Geometry
Lesson plans on how to incorporate plane geometry into an elementary classroom. Activities are hands-on, use manipulatives, and incorporate real world experiences.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Graphing Activities
Eighteen different graphing activities will teach students how to plot points, draw lines, compare graphs, and problem solve.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Cartesian Exploration Using the Ti Navigator System
In this activity sequence, using the TI-Navigator system, students control points in the xy-plane. Exploring this space freely and responding to prompts, the students will develop understanding and intuition that will guide their use of...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Equations of My Road
This lesson introduces students to the use of a map of an area, a neighborhood, a favorite city, or an amusement park, to determine the slope of a specific road. Students will find the slope of a line using a coordinate plane.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Translations in the Plane
In this activity, students will perform a translation, and explore the properties of translations. In the second part of this activity, they will extend the concept of translations to the coordinate plane.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Reflections in the Plane
Students will learn how to perform a reflection using the Cabri Jr. application, and will explore the properties of reflections. This activity will extend the concepts of reflection to the coordinate plane.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Coordinate Graphing
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Linear Pictures in the Activity Center
Students can use their knowledge of linear functions to match real world linear situations. Students will be asked to match equations to linear pictures that are imposed in a coordinate plane.
Other
Hpedsb: Geometry
This page of Geometry links addresses many of the Geometry expectations in the Ontario K-8 Math curriculum. There are simple sorting exercises for Grade One and Cartesian Graphing tasks for the intermediate grades.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Arithmetic Practice W/ Ordered Pairs
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to have young scholars practice simple computation that results in them graphing their answers. If they are accurate they will have a straight line. Students use an interactive...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Connect With Coordinates
Students will be involved in hands-on activities that will help them to learn to locate points on a grid. Students will also learn how to correctly read an ordered pair of numbers. Technology will be implemented through the use of a...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Maze Game
The interactive learning game has students practice their point plotting skills as they move through a mine field. The goal of the game is to get to a target location without crossing a mine.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reflections
These activities provide an opportunity for students to explore reflections both on and off of a coordinate plane.
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: Coordenadas Polares Y Cartesianas
This activity will help you to visualize the representation of a point in a Cartesian plane and in a polar plane.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Linear Regression: Wing Span/height
Students take measurements of individual's wing span and height and create a coordinate graph. The activity should include at least three different grade levels. Students submit an equation through "Activity Center" and the class...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Transformations in Geometry
In this activity the teacher will send two lists, a window range, and an educational document via the TI-Navigator. Students will explore the reflections and rotations of a shape in the rectangular coordinate system.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: From Here to There Applications of the Distance Formula
In this activity, students' will use a pair of motion detectors to record the cartesian coordinates of a rod moving in a star-shaped pattern and calculate the distances moved between the vertices of the star. They also compare these...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Slope Slider
This activity allows the user to explore the relationship between slope and intercept in the Cartesian coordinate system.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Handy Reflections
The purpose of this investigation is to: Revise plotting points on the Cartesian plane; Use and understand aspect ratios; Improve estimation skills; Use a spreadsheet or a graphing calculator to draw a graph; Learn how to reflect lines...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Transmographer 2
Build your own polygon and transform it in the Cartesian coordinate system. Experiment with reflections across any line, rotations about any point, and translations in any direction.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator System: Be the Point
This lesson introduces students to Activity Center, the coordinate plane, and the use of symbolic rules to represent, analyze, and generalize a variety of patterns. Students can use Activity Center to model and interpret relationships...