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Grade 5 Math · World 8: Pattern Plains · Level 82
Points in Real Problems
Explain what a point's numbers mean in a map or a story.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 82
- Points can stand for real things. On this town map, east is across and north is up. The park is 7 blocks east and 3 blocks north.
- The school is at 2 comma 3. It's level with the park, so they're 7 minus 2, or 5 blocks apart.
- Graphs work this way too. Here, across means hours, and up means miles. The point 3 comma 12 means after 3 hours, 12 miles were biked.
- Read the labels on the axes first. They tell you what the numbers mean. Try it with a grown-up: draw a map of your neighborhood on a grid.
Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards:
- 5.PAR.6.2 — Represent problems by plotting ordered pairs and explain coordinate values of points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane.