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Introducing the Cartesian coordinate system

Teacher guide Introducing the Cartesian coordinate system

TLF ID M014011

This is a website designed for both teachers and students that refers to the Cartesian coordinate system from the Australian Curriculum for year 6 students. It contains material on the Cartesian plane and includes plotting points and determining coordinates of points shown on a grid. There are pages for both teachers and students. The student pages contain interactive questions for students to check their progress in the topic.

Tags: Maths yr6
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Educational value
  • This resource is valuable for both teachers and students for the year 6 Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. It is particularly relevant to the content descriptions about working with the Cartesian plane, including plotting points and determining coordinates.
  • The resource may be useful in helping students achieve that element of the year 6 achievement standards that refers to students locating an ordered pair in any one of the four quadrants of the Cartesian plane.
Year level

6

Topics Cartesian planes Cartesian coordinates
Learning area
  • Mathematics

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Name: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Organization: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Description: Creator
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.amsi.org.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Online
  • Interactive
  • Text
Rights
  • © 2013 Education Services Australia Ltd, unless otherwise indicated. This material may be copied, distributed and adapted free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes, provided all copyright notices and acknowledgements are retained.