Day 69 Coordinate Plane Study Guide & Quiz

6th Grade Math Standards: 6.NS.6 Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent points on the line and in the plane with negative number coordinates. a. Recognize opposite signs of numbers as indicating locations on opposite sides of 0 on the number line; recognize that the opposite of the opposite of a number is the number itself, e.g., –(–3) = 3, and that 0 is its own opposite. b. Understand signs of numbers in ordered pairs as indicating locations in quadrants of the coordinate plane; recognize that when two ordered pairs differ only by signs, the locations of the points are related by reflections across one or both axes. c. Find and position integers and other rational numbers on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram; find and position pairs of integers and other rational numbers on a coordinate plane.

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.

The Learning Objective: Identify the origins, axes, and quadrants in a coordinate plane; Identify points in a coordinate plane; find the distance between two points of a quadrilateral in a coordinate plane; reflect points across the x or y-axis;

Assessment: The quiz was graded; the study guide was done with a partner with a teacher circumventing the classroom.

Agenda:

1. Collect all weekly quizzes
2. Pass out the study guide 
3. Pass out the quiz (second class)
4. Have students read or do a math challenge

Glass-Half Full: The quizzes reflected positive gains in learning.

Regrets: This whole unit was kind of dragged out as a result of the vacation falling where it has. Depending on when the school year begins next year, there might be a day or lesson removed.

Link of the Day: Step 2 in the learning walks series. It can be very powerful for everyone as it forces a teacher to teach a class almost like a substitute would teach except that they have been in the class before and have the reputation of being a teacher in the building in the first place.