Math Coordinate Grid Floor Classroom

Use masking tape to construct a coordinate grid on the floor of the classroom.

Math coordinate grid floor classroom.

Math worksheets to print off if you lost yours or were absent. Students learn to maneuver the coordinate plane and then advance to transformations and beyond. I laid the coordinate plane in the floor and instructed my students to get out their interactive notebooks. In this lesson students will be using their knowledge of the coordinate grid system to begin looking at identifying and plotting points within the first quadrant.

Rebecca davis sets up a coordinate plane on the floor of her classroom. X y the first number in an ordered pair is the x coordinate. It is actually lyrics to a flocabulary video called the coordinate plane. Divide the class into two teams.

Math is composed of building blocks. I have them read over the lyrics. Davis changes the slope or y intercept of the original equation and makes the activity into a race. Davis changes the slope or y intercept of the original equation and makes the activity into a race.

Any point can be located within one of the four quadrants in the coordinate plane using a specific ordered pair of numbers called its. Each child receives a blank grid of 5 x 5 or 6 x 6 squares with letters on the side and numbers along the bottom. A fun activity for practicing letter and number coordinates a 1 e 4. In middle school they use positive and negative numbers to plot.

We created a foldable about ordered pairs and a foldable about the parts of the coordinate plane. The teacher calls out coordinates one at a time and the student shades in the corresponding square. Have each team take turns calling out ordered pairs for the other team to locate on the grid. 3 2 3 is the x coordinate 2 is the y coordinate.

To begin i give students a copy of the lyrics to what i tell them is a poem. I have attached pdf templates of each at the bottom of this post. Our cartesian coordinate hop helps students in grades 5 8 practice their graphing skills such as practice locating points on the cartesian coordinate grid one to one correspondence slope shapes transformations equations of lines and addition and subtraction. Kinesthetic and tactile learning for graphing.

Groups of 3 or 4 students are assigned equations in slope intercept form and graph them using their bodies on the giant coordinate plane. If you get stuck on a problem try looking at the reteach worksheet at the same skill because it explains steps on how to solve a similar problem. The second number is the y coordinate. Groups of 3 or 4 students are assigned equations in slope intercept form and graph them using their bodies on the giant coordinate plane.