Transcript Grade 6 Mathematics Plotting Points

Grade 6 Mathematics
Plotting Points
Deandra Bernauer
January 30, 2014
How can I teach one
math concept in a variety
of different ways??
Curriculum Connections
• Strand: Shape and Space
• Outcome: SS6.4 – Demonstrate
understanding of the first
quadrant of the Cartesian plane
and ordered pairs with whole
number comparisons.
Direct Instruction
• Teachers can teach students how to
plot points on a coordinate grid the
‘old-fashioned way’, how most of us
were probably taught.
• Teachers lecture students about how
to plot points and then provide them
with a textbook assignment and
questions to answer.
Teaching Through Problem Solving
• Students are presented with word
problems and must use them to plot
points or read graphs with previously
plotted points.
• Math Makes Sense 6 uses this
approach in a problem that presents
students with a map and has them list
the coordinates of various locations
on that map.
Hidden Messages
• Worksheet Works is a website that
provides students with a template to
create hidden messages in coordinate
grids. Teachers can write any
message in the grid and students then
have to plot all of the points to solve
the messages.
• http://www.worksheetworks.com/math/
geometry/graphing/coordinatesmessage.html
Kinesthetic Mathematics
• Use tape to create a coordinate
grid on the floor of the
classroom.
• Have students move around on
the grid to get a feel for the
points, coordinates, and grid.
Reinforcing Skills Through Games
• Use the Internet to allow
students to play math games
that include plotting points or
finding coordinates.
• For example: Find the Alien
• http://www.mathplayground.com
/locate_aliens.html
Reciprocal Peer Teaching
• Group students together into
pairs or small groups,
preferably heterogenous
groups.
• Have students inquire and
discover how to plot points
together and to teach each
other and work together.
Using Manipulatives
• Geoboards & Elastic Bands – give
students coordinates and have them
create shapes or objects
• Magnetic Boards – Have students
create designs on a magnetic board
and then ask them to write out the
points so that someone else could
make the same object.
Technological Applications
• MimioConnect – An interactive
whiteboard – There are a
number of pre-made mimio
lessons available for math
• Smartboard – Create lessons
that incorporate using this
technology to engage students.