Curated OER
Common Theme in Folktale: 900 Versions of Cinderella
Seventh graders examine various stories that have a Cinderella theme. In this Language Arts lesson, 7th graders compare and contrast stories. Students write various journal assignments in regards to the stories.
Curated OER
Risky Business
Students view a video on AIDS, HIV and the ways in which HIV is spread. They discuss ways to avoid contracting HIV and participate in a simulation that shows the growth of a communicable disease.
Curated OER
Reflections of a Linear Function
Students reflect functions about the X-axis, Y-axis, and origin. They derive equations for reflected functions using the website www.explorelearning.com.
Curated OER
Lesson Design Archaeology
Students participate in their own excavation and measure and record as they go. In this archaeology lesson students divide into groups and solve the mystery of what they uncovered in their dig box.
Curated OER
A Functional Housing Market
Students access the Internet to search for housing prices in Houston, Texas,(the location can be changed to accommodate any location) and compare the prices to the number of square feet found in the living area of a house.
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...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Chameleon Graphing: Coordinate Plane
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.
Other
Worksheet Works: Coordinate Picture Graphing
Generate a worksheet for practice in how to plot coordinate pairs as you copy an image. Choose an image, the type of grid, the number of quadrants, and the layout, then download your worksheet in PDF format.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: What's in a Name? Explorations in the Coordinate Plane From
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.
BBC
Bb Ci: Exponential Graphs (Higher)
Exponential graphs increase rapidly in the Y direction and will never fall below the X -axis, thus forming a curve.
Mathematics Archives
Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Polar Coordinates
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...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Ordered Simple Plot
The interactive learning activity allows students to plot multiple ordered pairs. Teacher resources are included.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Coordinates and the Cartesian Plane
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Lego Introduction to Graphing
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...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Coordinate Plane
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.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Graphing Ordered Pairs
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plot Polar Coordinates
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Here you will learn how to convert and graph complex numbers in trigonometric or polar form using the polar coordinate system, which is similar in some ways to (x,...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Plot of a Mathematical Expression
This WebMath site provides an interactive 'solvers' to plot x and y coordinates on a graph.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Cartesian Coordinate Plane
Find a quick, concise explanation of the Cartesian Coordinate Plane. Examples are given and various aspects of plotting points and graphing are described.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Scatter Plot
Graph ordered pairs and customize the graph title and axis labels. Points are connected from left to right, rather than being connected in the order they are entered.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Trigonometry: Transformations of Polar Graphs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to alter graphs in polar coordinates by changing constants and/or functions.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Reading Graphs
Presents an introductory lesson to teach young scholars how to read and plot graphs and determine functions based on graphs.
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.