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Other

Soft Chalk Llc.: Polygons in the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This site provides short lesson reviews on how to plot points on a coordinate plane to form polygons. It also gives quick checks in between.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.g Polygons in the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
The purpose of this task is for students to practice plotting points in the coordinate plane and finding the areas of polygons. This task assumes that students already understand how to find areas of polygons by decomposing them into...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tracking Stocks and the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 6th
Which stock price had the largest change? How do you know? How do you represent a point on the coordinate plane? Students continue tracking their investments.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Practice: Points on the Coordinate Plane

For Students 6th Standards
Demonstrates how to plot ordered pairs of points across all four quadrants of a coordinate plane. Includes practice problems and explanations of their solutions.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Coordinate Plane Problems in All Four Quadrants

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice solving word problems by interpreting the meaning of points plotted on an xy coordinate system. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Coordinate Grid: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this instructional activity about the coordinate grid, students will be able to identify x- and y-axes, point of origin, quadrants, coordinates, and ordered pairs, and read, interpret, and plot points in any of the quadrants.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Introduction to the Cartesian Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
This lesson 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...
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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
Mathematics for Teaching

Mathematics for Teaching: What Is a Coordinates System?

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Discusses a coordinate system, including coordinates and quadrants on a coordinate plane. A GeoGebra activity is provided.
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Ordered Simple Plot

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The interactive learning activity allows students to plot multiple ordered pairs. Teacher resources are included.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Locating Points on the Cartesian Graph

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this interactive, students use clues and logic to plot the location of aquatic animals on a Cartesian graph that represents the four cardinal directions. The three riddles in the interactive, including one that requires students to...
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Simple Coordinates Game

For Students 3rd - 7th 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: 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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Graphic
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Cartesian Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This one page website lets you practice plotting points on the coordinate grid. See if you can find the missing coordinates to complete the shapes. When you are finished the solutions are only a click away.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: The Coordinate Plane [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphing calculator lesson on coordinate planes. Detailed examples, demonstrations with key functions, and practice problems included. Acrobat Reader required.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Points on a Coordinate Grid

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a basic flipchart to review plotting coordinates on a coordinate grid.
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Activity
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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Activity
K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Coordinate Grid Geoboards [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
An activity dealing with making a polygon and getting their coordinates. Materials needed: geoboards, rubber bands, coordinate grid paper and rulers.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Plots of Polar Coordinates

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Plot coordinates on a polar coordinate system.
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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
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Rectangular Coordinates

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Descriptions of x- and y-coordinates are presented, followed by an interactive game that demonstrates how to plot points on the coordinate plane. Examples and exercises are provided for practice.
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Box Plot

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Students can create box plots for either built-in or user-specified data as well as experiment with outliers. User may choose to use or not use the median for calculation of interquartile range.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plot Polar Coordinates

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Here you will learn how to convert and graph complex numbers in trigonometric or polar form using the polar coordinate system, which is similar in some ways to (x,...
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Coordinate Cunning

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Play this game for two and learn how to graph ordered pairs on the coordinate plane at this one page website. You will know right away if you have the correct coordinates.