Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Simple Coordinates Game

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
This applet allows students to practice plotting points and identifying ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. The learning resource consists of the activity, instructions, instructor notes, and additional resources.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: General Coordinates Game

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This applet allows students to practice plotting points and identifying ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. The learning resource consists of the activity, instructions, instructor notes, and additional resources.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Interactive: Scatter Plot

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Use this interactive applet to input a series of (x, y) ordered pairs and plot them. Parameters such as minimum and maximum value, minimum and maximum y value, and x- and y-scale can be set by the user or determined by the applet.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Scatter Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Graph ordered pairs and customize the graph title and axis labels. Points are connected from left to right, rather than being connected in the order they are entered.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Practice: Points on the Coordinate Plane

For Students 6th Standards
Demonstrates how to plot ordered pairs of points across all four quadrants of a coordinate plane. Includes practice problems and explanations of their solutions.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Writing Equations of Lines in Algebra I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will help students write equations of lines using two points. This activity will also help students review how to plot ordered pairs.
Graphic
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: What Are You Plotting?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This one page website is for practicing graphing ordered pairs. It lets you know right away if your choice is incorrect. At the bottom of the page their is a challenge with the solution just a click away.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Coordinate Graphing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
Activity
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Simple Maze Game

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this clever applet to move your robot to safe ordered pairs as it travels to its destination. This all takes place in the first quadrant. Direction are just a click away.
Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Plot Four: Positive and Negative Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Plotting points is usually an interesting activity for students. Make it even more interesting and engaging using this game.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Arrow an Activiaty for Plotting Points

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are given points to plot in activity center. The points will form an arrow. The teacher can then direct students to change the coordinates to translate the picture. Students practice plotting points, integer operations, and see...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Navigating the Usa With the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students will be plotting points on the United States Map. This background and activity could be used and/or modified to fit any social studies class. Students could explore topics ranging from graphing coordinates in pre-algebra to...
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Parametric Graph It

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity allows the user to plot ordered pairs and parametric equations on the same coordinate plane.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Algebra Plus: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Algebra lesson focuses on using patterns and relationships to write equations with two variables to represent relationships and patterns in real-world problems, plotting ordered pairs on a coordinate grid, and interpreting the meaning of...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Introduction to the Cartesian Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
This lesson consists of two PowerPoint presentations that use animation (motion) to demonstrate how to obtain a 1-1 mapping between a plane and ordered pairs of Real numbers. These can be teacher presented or if you have enough PCs...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Points in the Coordinate Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify the coordinates of a point and plot points in the coordinate plane.
Graphic
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Treasure Island

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Coordinate Cunning

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Play this game for two and learn how to graph ordered pairs on the coordinate plane at this one page website. You will know right away if you have the correct coordinates.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphing Coordinates: Can You Dig It?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will practice solving algebraic equations and plotting X and Y coordinates on a graph to better understand the techniques archeologists use to record their discoveries at excavation sites...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Connect With Coordinates

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Young scholars will be involved in hands-on activities that will help them to learn to locate points on a grid. Students will also learn how to correctly read an ordered pair of numbers. Technology will be implemented through the use of...
Activity
Cool Math

Coolmath: Intro to Graphing Plotting Points

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn how to plot points on a coordinate graph.
Activity
Help Algebra

Help algebra.com: Rectangular Coordinates

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The parts of the coordinate plane are described and plotting ordered pairs is demonstrated with several examples. The four quadrants of the coordinate plane are also defined.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: At a Snail's Pace

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students plot a mathematical relationship that defines a spiral. They use technology to create a spiral and to plot a set of ordered pairs.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cricket Thermometers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students investigate the relationship between temperature and number of cricket chirps. They learn to find the other value of a function when given one value of a function. Students use linear regression and plot a set...