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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Arithmetic Practice W/ Ordered Pairs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: General Coordinates Game

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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.
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Simple Maze Game

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
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.
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Activity
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.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator System: Be the Point

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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

Texas Instruments: Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Short quiz covering the coordinate plane, axes, quadrants, origin, and plotting points.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Translations on the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Use the activity center in TI-Navigator to discover a generalization for translating ordered pairs in a coordinate plane.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students use the pen feature of the calculator to draw geometric shapes in a coordinate plane.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Design Graphing Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create a design by connecting points in the coordinate plane. They then program their calculators to display their designs.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Equations of My Road

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Discovering the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The student will graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane and use graphing to solve problems involving cartography.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Drawing on Your Knowledge

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mapping a Leaf

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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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Activity
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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Coordinate Graphing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator System: Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This introduces students to Activity Center and is intended to help students plot points in the coordinate plane.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Picnic Challenge

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students find patterns to solve problems, explore functions, and graph linear functions on the coordinate plane.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Navigating the Usa With the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Quadrants in the Activity Center

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of the activity is for students in a beginning algebra course to review the x-y coordinate plane using Cabri Jr.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Two Sightings, Different Information

For Students 5th - 7th
Jackie and Matt are looking at the same object along two different lines, in this video segment from Cyberchase.
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Primary Resources

Primary Resources: Position and Direction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A large collection of teacher resources dealing with position and direction (coordinates and compass directions). Includes worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, games, presentations, and smartboard files.
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Unit Plan
Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra: Graphing Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Greg's Grid Graphs

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
This interactive web lesson investigates ordered pairs and how to plot them on a coordinate grid.