TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Graphing Equations on the Cartesian Plane: Slope
The lesson teaches students about an important characteristic of lines: their slopes. Slope can be determined either in graphical or algebraic form. Slope can also be described as positive, negative, zero or undefined. Students get an...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Art: Graph a Dance
In this lesson, students will choreograph a figure for a square dance, graph it, and perform it. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Graphs and Functions
This lesson plan is directed at introducing students to how to graph functions on the Cartesian coordinate plane. They will experience several categories of functions including lines and parabolas. Resources and interactive tools are...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Measuring and Graphing Toy Water Animal Growth
Lesson involves scientific investigation and knowledge of units of measurement. Students will select and submerge a growing water animal toy, predicting and measuring its growth of at least three places of metric measurement of distance...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le What Functions Do Two Graph Points Determine?
For this task, students find a unique linear function, a unique exponential function, and more than one quadratic function that go through the same two points on the coordinate grid. Aligns with F-LE.A.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Graphing Fun
For this hands-on project, learners have the opportunity to survey their classmates to find information that is meaningful to them. Then students will construct graphs using computer software. Learners will analyze their information and...
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Granny's Balloon Trip [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to use knowledge of scale to organize and represent data from a table on a graph.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Arithmetic Practice W/ Ordered Pairs
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to have students practice simple computation that results in them graphing their answers. If they are accurate they will have a straight line. Students use an interactive...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Next Dimension
The purpose of this lesson is to teach learners about the three dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. It is important for structural engineers to be confident graphing in 3D in order to be able to describe locations in space to fellow...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns Distances Between Points
The purpose of this task is for students to find the distance between points that lie in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane. Aligns with 6.NS.C.8.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Introduction to Slope for Middle Years Mathematics
This collection of five middle school math lessons covers the topic of plane geometry, specifically the concept of slope. The first lesson plan introduces students to plotting points on a Cartesian grid using a Geoboard. Lesson two moves...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Algebra Ii: The Trigonometric Functions
A lesson plan where students will interpret the trigonometric functions in terms of the unit circle, graph a sinusoidal function, and use a sinusoidal function to make interpretations in a modeling context.
Student Achievement Partners
Illustrative Mathematics: Equations of Lines [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students are to interpret graphs with equations of lines.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Heads Up!
The lesson is a hands-on project. Students will work in pairs to gather various measurements, organizing the data into a provided chart. The measurements will be used to review, reinforce, and introduce skills such as measures of central...
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Fill 'Er Up Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Middle schoolers will pour liquids into different sized containers to test their predictions as to the amount each will hold. Printable lesson.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Tf Trig Functions and the Unit Circle
The purpose of this task is to help students make the connection between the graphs of sin t and cos t and the x and y coordinates of points moving around the unit circle. Students have to match coordinates of points on the graph with...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Tf, G Co, Trigonometric Identities and Rigid Motions
The purpose of this task is to apply translations and reflections to the graphs of the functions f(x)=cos x and g(x)=sin x in order to derive some trigonometric identities. There are also rotations 180 degrees about points on the x-axis...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Algebra Plus: Targeted Math Instruction
Algebra lesson focuses on using patterns and relationships to write equations with two variables to represent relationships and patterns in real-world problems, plotting ordered pairs on a coordinate grid, and interpreting the meaning of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Conic Sections: Playing With Hyperbolas
Through a mixture of online exploration, and teacher instruction, students will discover how Hyberbolas are formed and will be able to use the key components (center, vertices and the asymptotes) to generate the equation of a graph.
Other
Mathematical Construction of Spirals
This is a simple lesson plan introducing how to graph using polar coordinates.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Lines, Rays, Line Segments, & Planes
This robust lesson plan for upper elementary and middle school grades introduces the concepts for lines, rays, line segments, and planes. Resources are linked to it and ready for your use.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Plot Four: Positive and Negative Numbers
Plotting points is usually an interesting activity for learners. Make it even more interesting and engaging using this game.
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Struts'n Stuff [Pdf]
Incorporating concepts in algebra, number sense, patterning, data collection, and geometry, this lesson engages students in various hands-on activities to explore the relationship between regular polygons and the number of diagonals...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Equations of Lines
For this task, 8th graders are presented with two intersecting line graphs and their linear equations. No values are shown on the axes. They are asked to interpret the constants in the equations in terms of their graphs, and make some...
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