Coordinates and Location

Graphing with Class
Math/Art When reinforcing coordinates, use graph paper and dots punched from various colors of paper. Call out coordinates and a color, then another and another. As you walk around the room, a glance will tell you who needs help with coordinates. It will also show you how much fun a little color can add to a math practice class. For enrichment, give the students time to make a picture or pattern with colored dots on another piece of graph paper and write the directions for making that picture using coordinates. Have the students exchange instructions and see if their classmates can recreate their picture.

Coordinate Geometry
Students will participate in several activities that will build their knowledge of coordinates graphing. Students will use ordered pairs to locate points on a grid. Students will also relate coordinate graphing to the real world through finding locations on a city map.

Play Battleship On Graph Paper
Students will get practice plotting points on a coordinate plane by playing a game similar to Battleship.

Where Are the Points?
Students will be able to find coordinates on a Cartesian coordinate grid, give coordinates to items on a grid, locate regions on a map of Utah, and tell the class the regions on a map of Utah in the first quadrant of the coordinate grid.