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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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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: What's in a Name? Explorations in the Coordinate Plane From

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will plot points in a coordinate plane and reflect those points across the axes using a MIRA and then using the graphing calculator STAT, STAT PLOT, and GRAPH menus graph the image on the graphing calculator screen.
Interactive
BBC

Bb Ci: Exponential Graphs (Higher)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Exponential graphs increase rapidly in the Y direction and will never fall below the X -axis, thus forming a curve.
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Mathematics Archives

Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Polar Coordinates

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a tutorial for Polar Coordinates. After actively involving in the site, students should be able to convert from rectangular coordinates to polar and from polar to rectangular. Students will also be able to plot points...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Coordinates and the Cartesian Plane

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
A brief refresher on the Cartesian plane includes how points are written in (x,y) format and oriented to the axes, and which directions are positive and negative. Then students learn about what it means for a relation to be a function...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Lego Introduction to Graphing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use a LEGO ball shooter to demonstrate and analyze the motion of a projectile through use of a line graph. This activity involves using a method of data organization and trend observation with respect to dynamic experimentation...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Coordinate Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get independent practice identifying points, graphing points and equations on the coordinate plane. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Graphing Ordered Pairs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-eight problems present a variety of practice graphing ordered pairs. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution" button to...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Plot of a Mathematical Expression

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This WebMath site provides an interactive 'solvers' to plot x and y coordinates on a graph.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Transformations of Polar Graphs

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to alter graphs in polar coordinates by changing constants and/or functions.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Reading Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Presents an introductory lesson to teach young scholars how to read and plot graphs and determine functions based on graphs.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Pumpkin Graph an Activity for Plotting Points

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are given 3 - 4 points to plot in activity center. Students practice plotting points an can review the coordinate plane.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Plot Four: Positive and Negative Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Plotting points is usually an interesting activity for young scholars. Make it even more interesting and engaging using this game.
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Other

Massey University: Maths First: Graphing Ordered Pairs

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The interactive tutorial and examples explore how to plot points. Topics include quadrants, Cartesian coordinates, and ordered pairs.
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TeacherLED

Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard Resource One Quadrant Graph

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students can use the interactive coordinate plane to plot ordered pairs and draw lines.
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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.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Graphing Number Patterns

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic, graphing and pattern recognition skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Coordinate Plane Problems in All Four Quadrants

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice solving word problems by interpreting the meaning of points plotted on an xy coordinate system. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Graph Points

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Plot a given point on the coordinate plane. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Functions and Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
The system created by Rene Descartes (1596-1650 CE) is explored in depth, covering topics such as definitions, notation, evaluating, domain and range, graphing and more. Interactive examples and demonstrations are enhanced using Live...
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Basic Algebra: Graphing X Y Points

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn how to plot points on a Cartesian graph. The tutorial explores the algebra concept through notes, examples, and practice exercises.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Rectangular Coordinates

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Descriptions of x- and y-coordinates are presented, followed by an interactive game that demonstrates how to plot points on the coordinate plane. Examples and exercises are provided for practice.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Crawling Around: Parametric Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' will record the x- and y-coordinates of a rod moving in a figure-eight pattern. They will then use the recorded motion information to separately model the x- and y-motion as a function of time. They will plot...