The apple directions has some mistakes in the coordinates so avoid this one. These are found in the attached pdfs for an owl, abe lincoln, george washington, polygons, christmas tree, santa, and a robot (the robot is in all four quadrants but easier due to its perfect symmetry).įor more challenging graph pictures, go to Īnother cool web site with challenging pictures are at
The easiest pictures are in the first quadrant only (positive values for both x and y). I will include both as part of the attached pdf. For example, if the picture is of a tall deer, you will be using vertical graph paper if the picture is of an animal laying down, it will be a horizontal graph. Make sure before they begin their pictures that they are using a coordinate plane graph that is either horizontal or vertical based on the directions. For example, point (2,3) is the second elevator from the origin moving up three floors. The best way I know to get children to follow these rules is to think of the "x" or first coordinate as the numbered elevator and the "y" or second coordinate as the floor to which the elevator travels. (x,y) is the format of each coordinate point, where x is on the horizontal axis and y is on the vertical axis remember, alphabetically: x comes before y, horizontal comes before vertical, and across comes before up.
We introduced all four quadrants in the coordinate plane. Mathletes had fun this week with their coordinate pictures.