Curated OER
Math 6 - Act. 08: Patterns
Sixth graders use centimeter cubes to build structures and then compare and contrast the patterns they see.
Curated OER
Does the falling tree make a sound if no one if there to hear it? (or communication via encryption)
Students explore encryption. They discuss the importance of cryptography in our daily lives. Students use games and cryptography to discover transformational geometry and modulo systems. They design their own encryption puzzles and...
Curated OER
Snowboarding! Join the U.S. Team: Olympics, Math, Weather
Learners make weather predictions and observations, research the cost of snowboarding equipment, and use their math skills to plot the course of a Giant Slalom Snowboarding event.
Curated OER
Vectors
Students use both magnitude and direction to locate a place. They use locating techniques to make a temperature field of their classroom.
University of South Florida
Fcat: Human Coordinate Plane: Teacher Notes
Students participate as a class in this activity using their desks as points on the coordinate plane. The teacher leads them in the activity, increasing their understanding of the characteristics of the coordinate plane.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Coordinates and the Cartesian Plane
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Coordinate Grid (Day 3)
The students will be learning about the coordinate grid through the use of multiple learning styles and real-life examples. This activity includes a detailed plan, slides containing notes and problems, and a video explanation.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Graphing and the Coordinate Plane
This lesson plan helps students understand how to graph ordered pairs on the coordinate plane. Lots of resources are available to teachers and students at this website.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lessons: Polar Coordinates
Introduces students to graphing in the polar coordinate plane.
Other
Nearpod: Graphing Equations Using a Table
For this lesson on graphing equations using a table, students will learn how to create a table for a function in terms of domain and range and then graph the function on the coordinate plane.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Functional Graphs
Students will graph input/output pairs from a simple linear function in order to gain an understanding of basic linear functions.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Reading Graphs
Presents an introductory lesson to teach students how to read and plot graphs and determine functions based on graphs.
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...
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...
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.
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...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Impossible Graphs
The lesson plan, with objectives, lesson plan outline, and a plotting-practice activity, examines impossible graphs.
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: 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.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Basics of Graphing
Students learn the basics of graphing including terminology, plotting, and reading points. The lesson has an overview, materials, procedures, and evaluation techniques.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Basics of Graphing
Students learn the basics of graphing including terminology, plotting, and reading points. The instructional activity has an overview, materials, procedures, and evaluation techniques.
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: 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...
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...