Analyze Math
Analyze Math: Plot Points in Polar Coordinates
The interactive tutorial examines how to plot points given by their polar coordinates. Learners use the applet to plot polar coordinates.
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.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Plot of a Mathematical Expression
This WebMath site provides an interactive 'solvers' to plot x and y coordinates on a graph.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Basic Algebra: Graphing Lines by Plotting Points
The tutorial discusses how to graph lines by plotting points. Learners explore the concept through notes and examples. Practice problems are included to check for comprehension of the algebra topic.
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.
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Constructing Scatter Plots
Practice plotting points to construct a scatter plot. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Introduction to Slope for Middle Years Mathematics
This collection of five middle school math lessons covers the topic of plane geometry, specifically the concept of slope. The first lesson introduces middle schoolers to plotting points on a Cartesian grid using a Geoboard. Lesson two...
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra
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,...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Basic Algebra: Graphing X Y Points
Students learn how to plot points on a Cartesian graph. The tutorial explores the algebra concept through notes, examples, and practice exercises.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: Position on a Map
Students will play an interactive game to interpret simple maps by describing position, plotting points with coordinates, and drawing and following a path.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: What's the Point? (Graphing Skills Game)
This graphing game challenges players to supply the coordinates for points shown on a series of graphs and also to plot pairs of coordinates on simple Cartesian planes.
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: Treasure Island
See if you can find what the ordered pairs are for each of the items on the map. This one page website will help you practice plotting points on the grid. You can check the answers right on the website.
Other
Nearpod: Displaying Data: Dot Plots
In this lesson, young scholars will learn how to create and intrepret dot plots.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Graph Points
Plot a given point on the coordinate plane. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Taxicab Treasure Hunt
Find the treasure hidden at an intersection in the city. Use the clues. Read the instructions then scroll to the bottom and click "hide the treasure".
Other
Massey University: Maths First: Graphing Ordered Pairs
The interactive tutorial and examples explore how to plot points. Topics include quadrants, Cartesian coordinates, and ordered pairs.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Does It Make a Difference Where You Shop?
A math investigation that uses scatter plots to compare prices of favorite soft drinks. Discover how valuable your skills in organizing and displaying data can be in real life scenarios.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Graph a Line
WebMath offers a java applet that allows you to input the slope of a line and a point on the line and gives you the equation, in slope-intercept form, of the line with the given slope that passes through the point. It also includes a...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Place Value and Problem Solving With Units of Measure
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in place value and problem solving with units of measure.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Symmetry, Reflective Drawing, and Totem Poles
In this lesson plan, students will create a colored pencil drawing utilizing symmetry and forms characteristic of Northwest Coast art and write a critique of their work. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Coordinate Grid Geoboards [Pdf]
An activity dealing with making a polygon and getting their coordinates. Materials needed: geoboards, rubber bands, coordinate grid paper and rulers.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 5.g Battle Ship Using Grid Paper
The purpose of this task is to give students practice plotting points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane and naming coordinates of points. Aligns with 5.G.A.1.