Day 69: Intro to Coordinate Plane

6th Grade Math Standards: 6.NS.8 Solve real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane. Include use of coordinates and absolute value to find distances between points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate.

6.G.3 Draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices; use coordinates to find the length of a side joining points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate. Apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

Objective: Locate a point in the coordinate plane; identify the quadrant of a point in the coordinate plane

Agenda:

1. Self-Assessment
2. QSSQ
3. Review Quiz
4. Provide students coordinate plane notes and graphic organizer
5. Practice
6. Homework

Assessment: I circumvented the room as students tried the last practice problems and homework problems on their own.

Glass Half-Full: The graphic organizer allows for me to do other things as students get the notes in partners. I put grades into the grade book in one class and made the initial plans to a weekly quiz two weeks down the line as a result of this in class. Students barely needed any instruction from me and if they did it was a four second answer.

Regrets: The students are really struggling with what is negative and positive. It's as if the integers unit did not happen. I wish that we had done the kinesthetic version of this lesson where the desks become grouped into different quadrants and students can get used to what negative is within the context of our "homemade coordinate plane."