Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Plane Ole Plottinghttp
Students will develop an understanding of the Cartesian plane through questioning and reasoning. Students will also gain a deeper understanding of the four quadrants within the coordinate system.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Go Fishing for Positive and Negative Integers
This lesson will actively engage students in a fishing tournament that uses ordered pairs to catch fish. As students begin to catch the hidden fish, they will find a relationship between the integers in the ordered pairs. By identifying...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Introduction to the Cartesian Coordinate Plane
This lesson plan consists of two PowerPoint presentations that use animation (motion) to demonstrate how to obtain a 1-1 mapping between a plane and ordered pairs of Real numbers. These can be teacher presented or if you have enough PCs...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rotating a Point Around the Origin
In this seven-problem quiz/practice, students find the coordinates of a point after it has been rotated about the origin.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Intersection of Two Straight Lines
Learn about the intersection of two straight lines with this helpful reference tool. Provides a detailed definition, examples, and an interactive activity that enhance further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Coordinates of a Point
Learn about the coordinates of a point with this handy reference tool. Provides a detailed definition, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Bus Station: Position on a Map
Help Jamal read maps, describe directions, and identify coordinates in this series of interactive exercises.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: Position on a Map
Help Gina locate items in the tea store using coordinates, a compass, and a ruler in this series of leveled exercises.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Group of Pyramids: Capacity and Position
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at the pyramids. Those skills include comparing capacity of three or more containers, using compass directions to describe locations, and using...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: Position on a Map
Students will play an interactive game to interpret simple maps by describing position, plotting points with coordinates, and drawing and following a path.
Help Algebra
Help algebra.com: Rectangular Coordinates
The parts of the coordinate plane are described and plotting ordered pairs is demonstrated with several examples. The four quadrants of the coordinate plane are also defined.
Mathematics Archives
Math Archives: Polar Coordinates
This site, which is provided for by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, shows you how to graph polar coordinates on a TI-85.
Math.com
Math.com: Graphing Equations Unit Quiz
The unit quiz consists of eight true or false questions that examine graphing linear equations. Solutions are provided.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Coordinate Plane
This site provides a definition and examples of a coordinate plane.
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa
Red Escolar: Figuras Escondidas
Practice graphing by playing a game in the Cartesian coordinates plane.
Learning Wave Communications
Learning Wave: A Description of the Coordinate Plane
A quick description of the coordinate plane is a great preview for students preparing for a unit on graphing.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Places on the Planet: Latitude and Longitude
Learners learn how citizen scientists involved in the Geological Society of America's EarthCaching project use GPS technology and latitude and longitude coordinates to find special places on the Earth.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Assessing the Situation
In this activity, students will use the scale, the key, and longitude and latitude on a map to determine where they have crashed. They will then use the map scale to determine the distance to the nearest city and how long it will take...
Math Slice
Math Slice: Hide and Seek
Play hide and seek with Lion King character Timon in this interactive game where learners practice finding coordinates using ordered pairs. The game is personalized and high scores are posted.
Other
Robert Munafo: Polar Coordinate System
This site is a personal site that contains brief but good information on the polar coordinate system. Contains links to additional information, along with several formulas and charts.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Bearings
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson the students select appropriate tools (e.g. compasses and protractors) to measure angles and analyze bearings (N, E, S, and W).
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Coordinate Plane
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an introduction lesson to the coordinate plane and ordered pairs for 7th grade math.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Gateway to the West
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students coordinate locations using a compass rose.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphing Coordinates: Can You Dig It?
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will practice solving algebraic equations and plotting X and Y coordinates on a graph to better understand the techniques archeologists use to record their discoveries at excavation sites...