Introduction to Plotting/Graphing Ordered Pairs - Coordinate Plane Grid Bundle

This is a digital activity bundle of 4 activities on graphing points in the coordinate plane. The 3 part series game is intended to introduce/develop students' understanding of plotting points, great for sparking academic language and vocabulary i.e. x-coordinate, y-coordinate, quadrant, etc. The escape room activity is intended to practice or review graphing ordered pairs on the coordinate grid.

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3 Part Series Game:

This Desmos Polygraph activity series is designed to help students develop their understanding of graphing ordered pairs in the coordinate plane. It is intended to spark vocabulary-rich discussions about ordered pairs in the coordinate plane. For more info about polygraph activities, read below!

• Part I only covers the first quadrant. Part II covers all quadrants (whole number coordinates). Part III covers all quadrants and includes mainly RATIONAL NUMBER COORDINATES. It is an excellent activity for launching ordered pairs in the coordinate plane, and can also be used as a review. The core vocabulary that may be useful includes: x-coordinate (or first coordinate), y-coordinate (or second coordinate), x-axis (horizontal axis), y-axis (vertical axis), ordered pair, point, quadrant I-IV, origin, or more simple terms such as: units left/right, units up/down, etc.

• One implementation idea is to allow students to play a round or two without any guidance. Then facilitate the conversation, discuss strategies, challenges, and introduce the above vocabulary. This expands the academic language in students' tool boxes and makes learning the vocabulary relevant due to the necessity. Consider playing a few more rounds afterward to provide students the opportunity to practice incorporating the academic language.

How It Works:

• Students first play a practice round similar to the game Guess Who? They can skip it, if desired.
• Students are paired up automatically with someone else from class.
• As long as students are logged in with the correct code at the same time as one another, they should be matched up with another student from your class, even from their homes during distance learning.
• One partner selects an image card while the other partner asks yes/no questions and eliminates the choices until successfully picking the right choice
• Then, students switch roles and start a new game
• While students play, you can monitor learning from the teacher dashboard
• If you have an odd number of students, you can open a new window/tab, go to https://student.desmos.com/ to sign in as a student (even though you’re the teacher). You can sign in with google and play against your student who needs a partner.
• You can always analyze the activity at a later time by selecting History from the main menu
• According to Desmos, "Polygraph is a partnered guessing game, designed to foster the pleasure and power of words, and develop informal language into formal vocabulary. Each round, players are matched into pairs, and assigned ‘Picker’ and ‘Guesser’ roles. The Picker selects a card; the Guesser asks yes/no questions for the Picker to answer in order to narrow the field of cards down to one."

Escape Room Activity: Students unlock 4 locks, each of which contain 4 problems. Also great 7th Grade review. Students receive basic feedback for correctness, and you can easily monitor student performance on the teacher dashboard. This will help you support student learning via small groups, 1 on 1 support, or whole group.

• Directions are provided on a slide and also on a short video in the activity. Super easy to implement and straightforward using Desmos, a free and user-friendly platform. Help your students have fun while engaging in mathematics. Pull students in breakout rooms or small groups to support struggling learners!

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me at brettpatrick5@gmail.com. Thanks!

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