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In this lesson, the students will be practicing graphing ordered pairs. There are three separate tasks that need to be completed during this lesson.
The teacher will instruct the students to start with Task 1: Practicing Plotting Ordered Pairs. In this task, students are given a set of ordered pairs that they must plot on the coordinate plane. After plotting five of these on the coordinate plane, they should raise their hand to show the teacher before moving on to Task #2.
Task 2: Plotting Ordered Pairs - For this task, The students are given several ordered pairs. They need to graph each of the points to create a picture. The students will connect the points in the order that they are listed using the line segment function.
Task 3: Creating Ordered Pairs - For the last task, the students will create a school-appropriate image of their own design in the applet. Their image must include at least 4 points in each quadrant of the coordinate plane. The students will then list out the ordered pairs they used to create their pictures. The idea for this is that someone else should be able to recreate their picture using the ordered pairs they list, just like in Task 1.
The teacher will circulate the room while the students are working on the tasks.
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The students will be assessed for successful completion of all three tasks.
To access all resources in this lesson, the teacher needs to create a free Geogebraaccount. Creating a free account will allow teachers to be able to assign interactive & engaging tasks to students. Teachers will be able to view live updated progress of students working on a specific task and view which tasks students have (or have not) started. Teachers will be able to ask the entire class questions and see all students' answers instantly.
Teachers who are not familiar with Geogebra can find a complete tutorial for Geogebra Classroom here.
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