National Humanities Center
Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Graphing and Applying Coordinate Dilations
Given a coordinate plane or coordinate representations of a dilation, the student will graph dilations and use those graphs to solve problems.
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.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Coordinate Plane
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of locating points on the coordinate plane. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click...
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Practice Using Coordinate Axes: Lesson 1
This lesson should provide the learner with example problems on how to represent the position of an object using a coordinate axes. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Practice Using Coordinate Axes."
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: What's in a Name? Explorations in the Coordinate Plane From
Students will plot points in a coordinate plane and reflect those points across the axes using a MIRA and then using the graphing calculator STAT, STAT PLOT, and GRAPH menus graph the image on the graphing calculator screen.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Coordinate Geometry
Students will participate in several activities that will build their knowledge of coordinates graphing. Students will use ordered pairs to locate points on a grid. Students will also relate coordinate graphing to the real world through...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Multiple Choice Practice: Coordinate Geometry
Test your knowledge of coordinate geometry by taking this twenty question multiple-choice practice test. Use a graphing calculator to help with any graphing problems and check your answers at any given time throughout the test.
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: A Lego Introduction to Graphing
Students use a LEGO ball shooter to demonstrate and analyze the motion of a projectile through use of a line graph. This activity involves using a method of data organization and trend observation with respect to dynamic experimentation...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Who Can Make the Best Coordinate System?
Students learn about coordinate systems in general by considering questions concerning what it is that the systems are expected do, and who decided how they look. They attempt to make their own coordinate systems using a common area...
Mathematics Archives
Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Polar Coordinates
This site offers a tutorial for Polar Coordinates. After actively involving in the site, students should be able to convert from rectangular coordinates to polar and from polar to rectangular. Students will also be able to plot points...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Graphing Dilations, Reflections, and Translations
Given a coordinate plane, the student will graph dilations, reflections, and translations, and use those graphs to solve problems.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Unit Circle
Two hands-on lab activities for instructors to use when teaching about the coordinate graphs of the sine, cosine, and tangent functions derived from a unit circle. The graphs of the reciprocals of the three functions are investigated....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plot Polar Coordinates
[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,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Lines in the Coordinate Plane Study Guide
This comprehensive study guide highlights the main terms and formulas needed to review lines in the coordinate plane. Examples are included.
Other
Nearpod: Graphing Equations Using a Table
In 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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Graphs of Linear Functions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn to graph linear functions in the coordinate plane. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Area and Perimeter on the Coordinate Plane
Find the area and perimeter of quadrilaterals using their coordinates. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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 lesson includes a detailed plan, slides containing notes and problems, and a video explanation.
PBS
Pbs: Using the Pythagorean Theorem on the Cartesian Graph
In this interactive, students use logic and mathematical skill to place animals at the correct points on a Cartesian graph representing the cardinal directions. Then, they use the Pythagorean theorem to determine the distances between...
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...
Other
The Coordinate Plane: Graphs & Graphing Calculators
Site provides exercises for graphing on the coordinate plane including distance formula, midpoint formula, graphs of equations, and graphing using a calculator.