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6th grade foundations (Eureka Math/EngageNY)
Unit 1: Lesson 2
Topic B: Foundations- Coordinate plane: graphing points
- Coordinate plane graphing word problem
- Coordinate plane word problems (quadrant 1)
- Distance between points in first quadrant
- Shapes on the coordinate plane
- Drawing a quadrilateral on the coordinate plane example
- Drawing polygons with coordinates
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Coordinate plane: graphing points
Sal graphs ordered pairs, such as (8, 10) in quadrant 1 on a coordinate plane. Created by Sal Khan.
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Why would I need to know this in real life?(12 votes)- I really have no clue(3 votes)
What is a plot?(2 votes)
A plot would be the 2 points you need to graph. He plotted (8, 10) and (6, 10) So he had two plots to graph.(16 votes)
Why there has to be a y axis and x axis(3 votes)
so the computer can understand it better and because y axis is different from x axis(6 votes)
how do you use graphing in your everyday life?(4 votes)- graphing can be used to look at patterns and correlations in data sets. once, at school, we looked to see if there was a correlation between attendance and ranking in major league baseball. what we found was that most of the time the more people who went to see a team, the higher the teams ranking was (or the other way around). graphing can be used in businesses to do things like track sales or see if some things are over all better than others. basically, graphing has hundreds of different purposes.(2 votes)
In the ordered pair, does x always come before the y?(3 votes)
In Algebra you'll learn that when you solve an expression or equation the variables in your answer should be in alphabetical order, so when doing coordinates just relate to this tip.
Hope this helps you a lot! :)(4 votes)
- what does it mean when it says not graphed(4 votes)
this is not free vbucks(4 votes)
its over here just come in my van(0 votes)
is graphing points like a bar graph?(3 votes)
In a way, yes. Over the course of 2 days, you can have eaten 4 tubs of ice cream (2, 4), Over the course of 5 days, you can have eaten 8 tubs of ice cream (5, 8), etc. You can make it a bar graph if you want.(2 votes)
- he is really smart 🤓(3 votes)
- no flipping kidding(1 vote)
- In the video, why is 8 x and not y?(2 votes)
actually this might be better than my first answer so its bacily like asking why are x and y axis on graphs so The horizontal axis is called the x-axis.And the vertical one is the y-axis.Cartesian points are written as xy pairs in parentheses, like so: (x, y). To graph a point, first locate its position on the x-axis, then find its location on the y-axis, and finally plot where these meet.The center point of the graph is called the origin and is written as the point (0, 0) because it's located at the zero point on the x-axis and the zero point on the y-axis. its kinda like that and hope this is better than my dull past answer
hope this helped :/ -GreyLeaf(2 votes)
Video transcript
We are asked to plot 8 comma 10. So the first number in
this ordered pair, this is our x-coordinate. This tells us how far do
we move in the x direction. It's a positive 8, so we
move 8 in the x direction. And then the second number
in our ordered pair is 10. That is our y-coordinate. That tells us how far we
move in the y direction. Since it's positive,
we move up 10. So we move up 10, all
the way over here. And you could have thought
about it either way. You could have said, hey,
look this is our y-coordinate. This is 10. So I could move up 10. And then my x-coordinate
is positive 8. So I'll move 8 along
the positive x-axis, or I'll move 8 to the right. You see right over
here I have moved 8 to the right-- 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. And I have moved 10 up-- 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. You might be tempted to
move 8 up and then 10 to the right, which
would put you there. But then you would have had
the two numbers mixed up. You would have had the x and
the y-coordinates mixed up. The 8 tells you how far to move
in the horizontal direction. The 10 tells you how far to
move in the vertical direction. Let's do a couple more of these. Plot 6 comma 10. Well once again, the first
number in the ordered pair is the x-coordinate, how far
we move in the x direction. So we move 6 to the right. And then the second
number, the 10, tells us our vertical
coordinate, our y-coordinate. So it's positive 10. So we move 10 up. Let's do one more-- 5 comma 7. So my horizontal coordinate is
5, so I move 5 to the right. And then my vertical one is
7, or my y-coordinate is 7. So I move 7 up-- 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. And as long as you remember
which one is horizontal and which one is vertical or
which one is the x-coordinate and which one is the
y, you should be fine. You could say, hey look,
this is my y-coordinate, 7. So I'm going to move 7 up. And my x-coordinate is 5, so I'm
going to move 5 to the right. And it will get you to
that exact same point. This specifies exactly one
point in the coordinate plane.