Middle School

The Coordinate Plane

Every point has an address: (x, y). Run left or right first, then rise up or down.

Quadrant means four.

Tap a quadrant to see its full name.

Click each zone to reveal its name.

0 of 4 revealed.

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The Coordinate Plane & Four Quadrants: a guide for parents

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Fly a drone through all four quadrants: run then rise, flip points over the axes, and count the distance between them.

Kitchen Table Prompt

Ask: if you start at the origin, walk 3 steps left and 4 steps up, where are you? Run first, then rise: (−3, 4), Quadrant II. Then ask what happens to the point if you flip it over the x-axis.

Standards this lesson covers

Common Core: 6.NS.C.6b, 6.NS.C.8 & 8.G.A.3 (Understand signs of ordered pairs as locations in quadrants; reflections across axes; graph points and find distances between points with the same first or second coordinate)
Texas (TEKS): TEKS 6.11A & 8.10C (Graph points in all four quadrants using ordered pairs of rational numbers; explain the effect of reflections across the axes on coordinates)
Florida (NGSSS): B.E.S.T. MA.6.GR.1.1 & MA.6.GR.1.2 (Extend previous understanding of the coordinate plane to all four quadrants; find distances between ordered pairs in the same row or column)
Virginia (SOL): VA SOL 6.11 & 8.7 (Identify and graph ordered pairs in the four quadrants; apply reflections of figures across the axes)
North Carolina (SCOS): NC SCOS 6.NS.6 & 6.NS.8 (Understand points with signs in the four quadrants and reflections across the axes; solve problems by graphing points and finding distances)

The Coordinate Plane

The Coordinate Plane & Four Quadrants: a guide for parents

Kitchen Table Prompt

Standards this lesson covers

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