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.
Handout
Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Graphing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that take a look at the Cartesian (or Rectangular) coordinate system. Provides definitions of ordered pairs, coordinates, quadrants, and x and y-intercepts.
Activity
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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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: 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...
Activity
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.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ordered Pair Solutions to Linear Equations

For Students 7th - 8th
Determine which ordered pair represents a solution to a graph or equation. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ordered Pair Solutions to Linear Equations

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Determine which ordered pair represents a solution to a graph or equation.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Make an Alien Mask Using Ordered Pairs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This website gives you the ordered pairs you need to make an Alien mask using graph paper.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Make a Dinosaur Using Ordered Pairs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This website gives you the ordered pairs you need to make a Diplodocus dinosaur using graph paper.
Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Make a T Rex Dinosaur Using Ordered Pairs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This math tutorial on ordered pairs has students make a T-Rex dinosaur using graph paper.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sets of Ordered Pairs: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains what is meant by a set of ordered pairs. It is 2 of 5 in the series titled "Sets Of Ordered Pairs."
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sets of Ordered Pairs: Lesson 4

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson explains what is meant by a set of ordered pairs. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Sets Of Ordered Pairs."
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sets of Ordered Pairs: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains what is meant by a set of ordered pairs. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Sets 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.
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.
Handout
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University

Npac Reu Program: Graphing With Coordinates in the Plane

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University provides a good five-part basic graphing instructor. Covers all the basics clearly. It is divided into links for easier navigation.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Ordered Pair

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was designed to introduce ordered pairs. There are several practice pages of placing ordered pairs, identifying ordered pairs and creating your own ordered pairs.
Graphic
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: What Are You Plotting?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This one page website is for practicing graphing ordered pairs. It lets you know right away if your choice is incorrect. At the bottom of the page their is a challenge with the solution just a click away.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Coordinate Cunning

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Interpret Relationships Between Patterns

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Generate patterns using given rules. Identify relationships between terms. Graph ordered pairs consisting of corresponding terms from the patterns. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly,...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Middle School Math 2: Graphing Functions

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will graph the function and find the unknown value in the given ordered pairs.
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...
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TeacherLED

Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard Resource Two Quadrant Graph

For Students K - 1st Standards
Use this interactive white board activity to explore coordinate planes and graphing ordered pairs.