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Curated OER

Twists and Turns

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students reflect, rotate, translate, and dilate figures in the Cartesian coordinate plane using grid paper and dot paper. They use transformations (i.e., reflections, translations, rotations, and dilations) to describe geometric patterns...
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Curated OER

Graph It

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Elementary and middle schoolers engage in a lesson of graphing in quadrant I of the coordinate plain. They use the graph to create shapes and symbols. While using a graphing calculator, they locate the points on the coordinate plane. In...
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Utah Education Network (UEN)

Mathematics: Growing Patterns

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Learners graph growing patterns using ordered pairs on a coordinate grid. They read The Fly on the Ceiling, a Math Myth.
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Curated OER

Let's Plot Points

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Use coordinate grid paper to plot points and identify shapes that are already plotted on the paper by saying their coordinates. Pupils also measure the distance between points and play the game Battleship. There are several web links and...
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Math Drills

Christmas Cartesian Art Snowflake

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
A festive math worksheet hones graphic skills and keeps the season bright! Young mathematicians join points in the order they were graphed to create a snowflake picture.
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Curated OER

Plot Points in the Coordinate Plane

For Students 5th
In this basic worksheet on plotting coordinate points, student practice how to describe where an ordered pair is located on a graph.This activity can provide a short review of material covered in class.
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Curated OER

Graph Mole

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice graphing ordered pairs by playing an online graphing game. Learners will discover why it is useful to plot coordinates on a xy plane. Graph Mole, is the online game that allows them to practice through a fun, interactive story....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Location on a Grid

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
This grid features 15 animals, and scholars use a coordinate system to describe the location of each. The x-axis is labelled with letters and the y-axis with numbers, and they list the coordinate pairs beside the animal names below the...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Graphing and the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Ready to introduce your class to the coordinate plane? This website includes a detailed lesson plan that includes two interactive games to help learners practice graphing ordered pairs. The scripted discussion is a little cheesy and a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Read a Map

For Students 5th
In this word problem worksheet, 5th graders use a coordinate grid as a map to answer 6 problems. They work with ordered pairs, locate quadrants, and apply the information to find items in the zoo.
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Curated OER

Location on a Grid

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Make coordinate pairs more engaging by having beginners color-code a grid based on given locations. The grid has numbers along the y-axis and letters along the x-axis, introducing them to the ordering of coordinate pairs with the x-axis...
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Curated OER

Location on a Grid

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Locating a point on a grid is an important skill to master; use this practice sheet to give schlars some clear and useful experience. On a large, simple grid they use a coordinate system to find specific squares and color them a given...
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Curated OER

Coordinates and Perimeters

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Here is a lesson containing a great activity based on coordinates, and the perimeters of shapes created using a given set of coordinates. After youngsters creat a shape on a grid based on some coordinate pairs, they must identify which...
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PPT
Curated OER

Coordinates

For Teachers 4th - 5th
These simple slides demonstrate how to use ordered pairs. They explain how a coordinate plane is set up, then show a series of images located on the grid. The class decides which ordered pair is missing from each object, then determine...
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Teachers Network

A World of Symmetry: Math-Geometry

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Define and identify the three basic forms of symmetry translation, rotation, and glides with your class. They cut out and arrange paper pattern blocks to illustrate symmetry, create a Cartesian graph, and design a rug with a symmetrical...
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Curated OER

Number Pairs

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
As you introduce graphs to young scholars, use this coordinate pairs activity to give them some independent practice. Learners examine 12 points on a graph, all of which are in the first quadrant (and therefore positive). They write the...
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Jude Mphoweh

Coordinates

For Students 4th - 6th
This coordinate graphing lesson gives your young graphers practice graphing points on these rectangular coordinate grids. 
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Interactive
Scholastic

Study Jams! Ordered Pairs

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Using an amusing amusement park, Sam describes how it is a coordinate plane and how to graph an ordered pair. Perfect for beginners, the animation moves on to point out a tip using the first quadrant of an empty coordinate plane.
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Curated OER

Plot the x-y Coordinates on the Grids Below

For Students 5th - 7th
In this coordinate grid graphing worksheet, students plot the given points onto each of 6 coordinate grids. All points are located in quadrant 1. One point is plotted on each grid. Answers are given by clicking the appropriate place on...
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Curated OER

Locating IIT Using Ordered Pairs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate ordered pairs. In this math lesson, students plot and locate ordered pairs in a coordinate plane and are exposed to how to read and create a map.
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Curated OER

Help Mary Find Her Way Home

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discover the first quadrant of the coordinate plane by using coordinate points to give directions. They show a lost girl the way home using coordinate points. They add definitions to their math journals.
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Curated OER

Shell Graphing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the four quadrants of a coordinate grid.  In this graphing lesson, 5th graders trace sea shells in each of the four quadrants of a coordinate grid and then label the ordered pairs on each shell.  For the final...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Graph Ordered Pairs of Integers

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ordered pairs worksheet, students read the directions in 6 story problems that will tell which way to move on the coordinate plane. Students identify the ordered pairs that name their ending spot.
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Curated OER

Functions and Graphing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Graphing functions in a real world application makes math come to life. Learners graph points on a coordinate plane and identify various points on a graph by working through a set of real world problems. This is a perfect review exercise.

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