Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Coordinate Grid: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this lesson about the coordinate grid, students will be able to identify x- and y-axes, point of origin, quadrants, coordinates, and ordered pairs, and read, interpret, and plot points in any of the quadrants.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Square Deal

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic, ordered pairs, and pattern recognition skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Transformation Tease

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Follow the directions at this one page website. You will get lots of practice plotting points on the coordinate grid and experience with transformational geometry.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Cartesian Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This one page website lets you practice plotting points on the coordinate grid. See if you can find the missing coordinates to complete the shapes. When you are finished the solutions are only a click away.
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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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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Weather: Rainfall

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Create and use scatterplots based on information from a table, and compare and contrast annual rainfall in various places around the world.
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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...
Interactive
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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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.
eBook
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.
Unit Plan
Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a tutorial for students in algebra 2 or for those who need a refresher. The site has explanations, definitions, examples, practice problems and practice tests are found covering topics such as linear equations, graphing,...
Lesson Plan
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...
Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: What's the Point? (Graphing Skills Game)

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
This graphing game challenges players to supply the coordinates for points shown on a series of graphs and also to plot pairs of coordinates on simple Cartesian planes.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: In a Heartbeat [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Apply knowledge of scatter plots to discover the correlation between heartbeats per minute before and after aerobic exercise.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Sports and Math: Will Women Athletes Ever Catch and Surpass

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore, explain and make conclusions based on graphs of scatter plots of the Olympic records for men and women in the same event over the same years. Plot x- and y-values, and create linear equations from the data.
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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.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Coordinate Tan

For Students 9th - 10th
Enter the World of Tan. The solutions to these challenges are located right on the website.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Coordinate Grid and Geometry

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Students make connections between the coordinate grid and Geometry by finding the distance of line segments using the coordinate plane. This lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, slides containing notes and problems, and a...
Interactive
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Looking for the Top Quark

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this interactive graphing game to practice plotting points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plain.
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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Quadrilateral Problems on the Coordinate Plane

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
A set of four practice problems finding the points of quadrilaterals on a coordinate plane.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 5.g Battle Ship Using Grid Paper

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
The purpose of this task is to give students practice plotting points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane and naming coordinates of points. Aligns with 5.G.A.1.
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Introduction to Slope for Middle Years Mathematics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This collection of five middle school math lessons covers the topic of plane geometry, specifically the concept of slope. The first lesson introduces students to plotting points on a Cartesian grid using a Geoboard. Lesson two moves them...
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Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University

Npac Reu Program: Graphing Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Northeast Parallel Architecture Center, Syracuse University provides a brief lesson on graphing equations by plotting ordered pairs.