Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Arithmetic Practice W/ Ordered Pairs
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to have young scholars 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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Shodor Interactivate: General Coordinates Game
This applet allows students to practice plotting points and identifying ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. The learning resource consists of the activity, instructions, instructor notes, and additional resources.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Simple Maze Game
This applet allows students to practice plotting ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. The learning resource consists of the activity, instructions, instructor notes, and additional resources.
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.
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator System: Be the Point
This lesson introduces students to Activity Center, the coordinate plane, and the use of symbolic rules to represent, analyze, and generalize a variety of patterns. Students can use Activity Center to model and interpret relationships...
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Texas Instruments: Coordinate Plane
Short quiz covering the coordinate plane, axes, quadrants, origin, and plotting points.
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Texas Instruments: Translations on the Coordinate Plane
Use the activity center in TI-Navigator to discover a generalization for translating ordered pairs in a coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments: Coordinate Plane
In this activity, students use the pen feature of the calculator to draw geometric shapes in a coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments: Design Graphing Project
Students create a design by connecting points in the coordinate plane. They then program their calculators to display their designs.
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Equations of My Road
This lesson introduces students to the use of a map of an area, a neighborhood, a favorite city, or an amusement park, to determine the slope of a specific road. Students will find the slope of a line using a coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments: Discovering the Coordinate Plane
The student will graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane and use graphing to solve problems involving cartography.
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Texas Instruments: Drawing on Your Knowledge
In this activity, students will understand the basic geometric concepts of parallelism and perpendicularity, and will also able to use rectangular coordinates to make congruent objects. They will display understanding of parts of...
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Texas Instruments: Mapping a Leaf
In this activity, students will identify and record ordered pairs from a coordinate plane. They will examine symmetry about the axes, reflections, and symmetry in nature. They understand geometric concepts like area and perimeter, and...
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Texas Instruments: Pumpkin Graph an Activity for Plotting Points
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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Texas Instruments: Coordinate Graphing
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...
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator System: Treasure Hunt
This introduces students to Activity Center and is intended to help students plot points in the coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments: Picnic Challenge
In this activity, students find patterns to solve problems, explore functions, and graph linear functions on the coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments: Navigating the Usa With the Coordinate Plane
The students will be plotting points on the United States Map. This background and activity could be used and/or modified to fit any social studies class. Students could explore topics ranging from graphing coordinates in pre-algebra to...
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Texas Instruments: Quadrants in the Activity Center
Students will determine appropriate quadrants given specific instructions of where to move on a the coordinate plane in the TI-Navigator Activity Center
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Texas Instruments: The Coordinate Plane
The purpose of the activity is for students in a beginning algebra course to review the x-y coordinate plane using Cabri Jr.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Two Sightings, Different Information
Jackie and Matt are looking at the same object along two different lines, in this video segment from Cyberchase.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Position and Direction
A large collection of teacher resources dealing with position and direction (coordinates and compass directions). Includes worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, games, presentations, and smartboard files.
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra: Graphing Equations
Through this tutorial, you will learn how to solve equations by graphing them on a coordinate plane. Contains several examples with step-by-step solutions and practice exercises for you to complete and check.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Greg's Grid Graphs
This interactive web lesson investigates ordered pairs and how to plot them on a coordinate grid.