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Coordinate Grid Guided Notes and Practice Problems
All of these notes go along with the video you will be watching from Ms. Suckstorff, Mr. Kollar, and Mr.
Booth. Please follow along!
 Where are some real life examples of the coordinate grid outside of math class?
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The four sections of the coordinate plane are called _____________________. (We will talk more
about this in a second).
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The place where the X and Y axis intersect is called the ______________. Write this on the graph
below.
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The X axis goes from ______________ to _____________.
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The Y axis goes _____________ and _______________.
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Why are some of the numbers on this coordinate grid negative and some are positive?
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Which two directions are the positive numbers going?
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Which two directions are the negative numbers going?
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To plot points on a coordinate grid, you are given mini “directions” in the form of 2 numbers like
(3, 5). This is called an _________________________.
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The first number is the _________ coordinate and the second number is the __________ coordinate.
How can you remember this order?
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In (3,5) the 3 tells you to go to the
_________________ first, and the 5 tells you to
go _______________ second.
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Now, more about the quadrants. We are
going to label the quadrants now, using
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Roman numerals. We are also going to label the positive and negative “rules” of these quadrants as well.
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Use the cooridnate plane below to plot the points from the video. Please fill in the chart with any
points the video asks you to plot. Point A is (3,5) from earlier in the video. Please plot that now.
Letter
Coordinate
Pair
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What is the distance between A and B?
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How did you figure it out?
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If you didn’t have the graph in front of you, how could you have figured out this distance by just
looking at the coordinates?
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Plot point C and D.
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What are the coordinates of point E? ( ________, _________)
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What is the distance from D to E?
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What is the distance from D to C?
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Please connect C to D, and D to E, and E to C with three straight lines, what shape did you just make?
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Using the formula for the area of a triangle, and the distances that you just measured, please find the
area of triangle CDE.
**This was a crash course in the coordinate grid. Hopefully you now feeling pretty good about locating points, plotting points,
finding the distance between two points, creating shapes on the grid and finding the area of the shape, what a quadrant is, and
what the positive and negatives rules are for each quadrant. Thanks for following along! Go 6th grade math!