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🧮 5th Grade · Math5.G.A.1Unit 11: The coordinate plane

Coordinate grid

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🎯 Objective: Students learn axes, origin and ordered pairs.

Lesson outline

  1. Classroom grid game: find the seat at (3, 5).
  2. Name axes, origin and ordered pairs.
  3. Plot points.
  4. Exit: plot (3, 5).

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

5.G.A.1

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Graph points in the first quadrant
  • Represent real-world problems on the coordinate plane

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

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More lessons in “The coordinate plane”

  1. Coordinate grid
  2. Graphing points
  3. Graphing patterns

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