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Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Ordered Simple Plot
The interactive learning activity allows students to plot multiple ordered pairs. Teacher resources are included.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Chameleon Graphing: Coordinate Plane
Dive into this introduction to graphing in the coordinate plane, and meet a chameleon named Sam. Sam will help guide you through graphing points on a line, using negative numbers, and graphing points in the coordinate plane.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Coordinate Graphing
This lesson introduces students to Activity Center and is intended to help students develop an initial conceptual understanding of how to plot a set of points using a coordinate grid and to create lists to represent the ordered pairs for...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Coordinate Graphing
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...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Simple Maze Game
Use this clever applet to move your robot to safe ordered pairs as it travels to its destination. This all takes place in the first quadrant. Direction are just a click away.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Do You See What I See?
Students discover how pictures formed by graphing ordered pairs can be stretched and shrunk by multiplying and dividing the coordinates.
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.
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...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Plot Four: Positive and Negative Numbers
Plotting points is usually an interesting activity for students. Make it even more interesting and engaging using this game.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Middle School Math 2: Graphing Functions
Students will graph the function and find the unknown value in the given ordered pairs.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Parametric Graph It
This activity allows the user to plot ordered pairs and parametric equations on the same coordinate plane.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Mapping a Leaf
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...
University of South Florida
Fcat: Spaghetti Bridges: Teacher Notes
Students build bridges and test their strength to collect data and write an equation. The concept of slope is explored in this activity.
TeacherLED
Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard Resource Two Quadrant Graph
Use this interactive white board activity to explore coordinate planes and graphing ordered pairs.
PBS
Pbs: Horizontal and Vertical Distances on the Cartesian Graph
In this interactive, students use logic and mathematical skill to place aquatic animals at locations on a Cartesian graph with cardinal directions. Then, they determine both the vertical and horizontal distances between points. The...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: What Are You Plotting?
This one page website is for practicing graphing ordered pairs. It lets you know right away if your choice is incorrect. At the bottom of the page their is a challenge with the solution just a click away.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Coordinate Cunning
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Design Graphing Project
Students create a design by connecting points in the coordinate plane. They then program their calculators to display their designs.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Buried Objects Adventure 1
Students use the CBR 2 to gather data and identify "buried" objects. They interpret and analyze graphs of height as a function of time, and use the change in the y-coordinates of an ordered pair to determine the height of an object.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Scatter Plot
Graph ordered pairs and customize the graph title and axis labels. Points are connected from left to right, rather than being connected in the order they are entered.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Where Should They Hold the Fundraising Party?
Students learn how to create a table of values for a simple linear function and use the table to create a graph on squared paper. They use the graphing calculator to display the ordered pairs and find values of corresponding to values of...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Discovering the Coordinate Plane
The student will graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane and use graphing to solve problems involving cartography.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Graphit
Create graphs of functions and sets of ordered pairs on the same coordinate plane. This is like a graphing calculator with advanced viewing options.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Linear Regression: Wing Span/height
Students take measurements of individual's wing span and height and create a coordinate graph. The activity should include at least three different grade levels. Students submit an equation through "Activity Center" and the class...