Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Drawing Polygons With Coordinates

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice drawing shapes on the coordinate plane. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator System: Be the Point

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson introduces students to Activity Center, the coordinate plane, and the use of symbolic rules to represent, analyze, and generalize a variety of patterns. Students can use Activity Center to model and interpret relationships...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator System: Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This introduces students to Activity Center and is intended to help students plot points in the coordinate plane.
Graphic
K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Coordinate Grid Paper Set [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This pdf contains several types of blank coordinate grids.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: 2.2 Vectors, Scalars, and Coordinate Systems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Define and distinguish between scalar and vector quantities and Assign a coordinate system for a scenario involving one-dimensional motion.
Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Vectors, Scalars, and Coordinate Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive module, students will learn how to define and distinguish between scalar and vector quantities. They will assign a coordinate system for a scenario involving one-dimensional motion.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Drawing Polygons With Coordinates

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this exercise, students practice drawing polygons with coordinates. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Drawing Polygons With Coordinates 2

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this exercise, students practice drawing polygons with coordinates. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Lesson Plan
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Teaching About and Using Coordinate Systems [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provides lessons and activities for teaching about the different types of coordinate systems including the Cartesian coordinate system, the Geographic Coordinate System, the Universal Transverse Mercator grid, and the State Plane...
Activity
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Polar Coordinates

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Hotmath provides 20 practice problems relating to polar coordinates and complex numbers. Each of the practice problems include a step-by-step guide for solving.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cartesian Exploration Using the Ti Navigator System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity sequence, using the TI-Navigator system, students control points in the xy-plane. Exploring this space freely and responding to prompts, the students will develop understanding and intuition that will guide their use of...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Linear Equations Substitution

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Flipchart, students are introduced to linear equations, substitutions, and graphing linear equations on a coordinate grid system.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Linear Inequalities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students create linear inequalities and systems of linear inequalities on a coordinate plane. This is like a graphing calculator with advanced viewing options.
Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Y Axis

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a very brief site giving the name physicists use when referring to this axis, and its general orientation in the Cartesian system.
Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Z Axis

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a graphical representation of the z-axis in a 3D cartesian coordinate plane and expresses it's normal orientation. Site has related links.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Tracing Paper Inequalities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will graph systems of linear inequalities in two variables in the Cartesian coordinate plane and find their solutions.
Interactive
TeacherLED

Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard Resource Two Quadrant Graph

For Students K - 1st Standards
Use this interactive white board activity to explore coordinate planes and graphing ordered pairs.
Activity
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Functions and Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
The system created by Rene Descartes (1596-1650 CE) is explored in depth, covering topics such as definitions, notation, evaluating, domain and range, graphing and more. Interactive examples and demonstrations are enhanced using Live...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Ced.2 and G Gmd.4: Global Positioning System I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This question examines the algebraic equations for three different spheres. The intersections of each pair of spheres are then studied, both using the equations and thinking about the geometry of the spheres. Aligns with A-CED.A.2 and...
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Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Distance Between Two Locations

For Students 9th - 10th
This Java applet allows the user to name any two points in a Cartesian system, see the segment on the screen and view how the distance between the two points is found.
Activity
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Line

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This MathWorld site gives Euclid's definition of a line, properties of lines, common terminology, and algebraic representations of lines and their distinctive parts in a cartesian system. The site then goes into detail of different line...
Unit Plan
Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a tutorial for students in algebra 2 or for those who need a refresher. The site has explanations, definitions, examples, practice problems and practice tests are found covering topics such as linear equations, graphing,...
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That Quiz

That Quiz: Practice Test: Graph Points

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
This resource allows users to test their knowledge about graph points.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Catapults: Controlled Investigations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this structured inquiry, students will investigate a catapult system. Having previously explored and identified the variables of the catapult system (length of lever, mass of shot, angle of catapult), students will conduct controlled...