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Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Points on the Coordinate Plane
Practice graphing points like (-2, 4) on a coordinate plane. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Learning Wave Communications
Learning Wave: A Description of the Coordinate Plane
A quick description of the coordinate plane is a great preview for students preparing for a unit on graphing.
That Quiz
That Quiz: Puntos
This is an interactive practice test to review graphing points on the Cartesian, Polar and Complex plane. Test are timed and keep track of right and wrong answers.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Transformation Tease
Follow the directions at this one page website. You will get lots of practice plotting points on the coordinate grid and experience with transformational geometry.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Cartesian Puzzle
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.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Coordinate Tan
Enter the World of Tan. The solutions to these challenges are located right on the website.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Intro to Graphing Plotting Points
Learn how to plot points on a coordinate graph.
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...
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Looking for the Top Quark
Use this interactive graphing game to practice plotting points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plain.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Analytic Geometry: Polar Coordinates
This site from The Math Forum provides great information on polar coordinates. You can access this information either by clicking on the coordinates link or just scrolling down, it is the first one listed on the page. Includes several...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Solutions of Systems of Inequalities
Check whether an ordered pair is a solution of a system of two-variable linear inequalities. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa
Red Escolar: Figuras Escondidas
Practice graphing by playing a game in the Cartesian coordinates plane.
Other
Interactive Algebra
This interactive site allows you to practice several algebraic concepts, including solving equations, factoring, and graphing. Problems are randomly generated and allow unlimited practice. Each link contains buttons that allow you to get...
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: Classifying Quadrilaterals
Students will be sent ordered pairs through lists using the TI-Navigator. These pairs will then be graphed as a line graph and students will classify the shape of the quadrilateral and justify their choice.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Floral Shop Math
Students will create quadratic functions that model revenue collected and profit earned from selling bouquets in a flower shop. The students can use graphing calculators to identify the maximum value for each function. Once they identify...
Math Planet
Math Planet: Systems of Linear Inequalities
A system of linear inequalities in two variables consists of at least two linear inequalities in the same variables. The solution of a linear inequality is the ordered pair that is a solution to all inequalities in the system and the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Coordinate Geometry
Young scholars will participate in several activities that will build their knowledge of coordinates graphing. Students will use ordered pairs to locate points on a grid. Young scholars will also relate coordinate graphing to the real...
California State University
Cal State San Bernardino: Linear Regression
Cal State San Bernardino offers an excellent site on linear regression, including formulas and an applet that allows you to mark the locations of ordered pairs and then determines the equation of the regression line and graphs it.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Two Variable Function Pump
Enter two complex numbers (z and c) as ordered pairs of real numbers, then click a button to iterate step by step. The iterates are graphed in the x-y plane and printed out in table form.
Learning Wave Communications
Learning Wave: Algebra, Section 2
The basic concepts of graphing are covered on this site, including points, slopes, equations of lines, and y-intercept. A quick discussion on the Pythagorean Theorem is also concluded. Several practice and application problems are...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Sports and Math: Will Women Athletes Ever Catch and Surpass
Explore, explain and make conclusions based on graphs of scatter plots of the Olympic records for men and women in the same event over the same years. Plot x- and y-values, and create linear equations from the data.
Other
Mathman: The Fibonacci Numbers, Pineapples, Sunflowers, and the Golden Mean
Here is an exercise to do using a pineapple to explore Fibonacci numbers. Then find the ratios of larger to smaller of each consecutive pair of Fibonacci numbers and graph them to find out the sequence.
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...