4 Quadrants Graphing Ordered Pair Coordinate Plane Game

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for 4 quadrant graphing ordered pairs? Well look no further as Ordered Pair and Coordinate Plane Graphing Activity 4 Quadrant Puzzles, for CCSS 6.NS.6, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 6th grade middle school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotation, review game exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill, test, or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is homeschooled or given this as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these for distance learning at home to improve their skills.

This puzzle set includes 24 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a tub or bin for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a notebook or journal as a reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

It covers x and y coordinates, ordered pair format, and graphing points in all four quadrants. By matching the puzzle pieces to solve the problems, students can gain confidence in an important and sometimes challenging skill. Your 6th graders will love to practice and learn to develop strategies about coordinate graphing in quadrants 1-4.

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try!

Relevant Grade 6 Common Core Standard 6.NS.C.6
Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent points on the line and in the plane with negative number coordinates.
Cross Reference: Texas TEKS 6.11 and Virginia SOL 6.11