Curated Video
Graphing Points to Create a Map
Represent real-world problems by graphing points on a coordinate plane.
Curated Video
The Latitude-Longitude Grid
The Latitude-Longitude Grid applies knowledge of coordinates, equator, prime meridian, tropics, and hemispheres by locating places on a map or globe.
Mazz Media
Discover the World: Locating Places
This program helps students to hone their map skills. Using colorful graphics and animation, students will come to understand the uses of map grids and the compass rose. In addition, viewers will learn how to locate any location on earth...
PBS
What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?
Normal maps are useless inside black holes. At the event horizon - the ultimate point of no return as you approach a black hole - time and space themselves change their character. We need new coordinate systems to trace paths into the...
Curated Video
Plotting Points
Mr. Addit explains what it means to plot points on a coordinate grid using ordered pairs. He models plotting points on a coordinate grid.
Curated Video
How Closing Roads Could Speed Up Traffic - The Braess Paradox
The Braess Paradox is an unexpected result from network theory. It states that adding capacity could actually slow down the speed of the network. Applied to highways, the Braess Paradox means the existence of some roads slows down...
Mathed Up!
Translations
Introduce translations as transformations that move figures in horizontal and vertical distances with a video that shows how to translate the figures. A second video covers how to determine the translation that has occurred. Pupils...
Mathispower4u
Graph a Linear Equation in Slope-Intercept Form (Example 3)
The third example's the charm. Young mathematicians watch a helpful video that shows how to graph a linear equation in slope-intercept form on a coordinate plane. The narrator works through the example y = –2x + 5 by first plotting the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Performing Reflections: Quadrilateral
Demonstrates how to use an interactive tool to find the reflection of a quadrilateral on a Cartesian grid. Includes a discussion of slope. [2:26]