options: Functions: students learn to define, use, and evaluate functions to model relationships between quantities.

Ratios & Proportional Relationships: students learn to recognize, describe, represent, and reason with ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and percent.

Measurement & Data: students learn to work with data and measure attributes such as time, money, length, area, and volume. They may learn to compare measurements to operations and convert between different units of measure.

Number & Operations - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Number & Operations in Base Ten: students learn to work with the base-ten system and build place value understanding.

Modeling: students learn to choose and use appropriate mathematics and statistics to analyze real-world empirical situations, improve decisions, and report on their conclusions and the reasoning behind them.

Number Systems and Quantity: students learn to understand the complex number system and reason quantitatively.

Operations & Algebra: students learn to solve problems using algebraic thinking and operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They may learn to identify and explain arithmetic patterns, evaluate or manipulate numerical expressions, and reason with equations and inequalities.

Statistics & Probability: students learn to analyze and produce data distributions, and build understanding of univariate and bivariate data. They learn to interpret data, make statistical inferences, justify conclusions, understand rules of probability, and use probability to make decisions.

Counting & Cardinality: students learn to know number names and the count sequence, count to tell the number of objects, and compare numbers.

Geometry: students learn to classify geometric figures by their properties, and understand and compare the relationships between them. Students develop and use formulas to compute lengths, areas, and volumes, and they use transformations to generate new shapes and compare existing ones. Geometry can be studied with and without coordinates.
problem_activity: Activity
The purpose of this activity is for students to draw their own axes for different sets of coordinates. They must decide which of the four quadrants they need to use and how to scale the axes. Some students may use logic such as “the largest/smallest point is this, so my axes must go at least that far.” Identify these strategies for the discussion. Monitor for differences in scales and axes where the points were still able to be plotted correctly to highlight during discussion.
Teacher Notes for IM 6–8 Accelerated
Adjust this activity to 15 minutes. Skip the part of the activity synthesis that references making connections back to the warm-up.
Launch
Arrange students in groups of 2. Allow 10 minutes for students to construct their graphs and discuss them with their partners. Follow with a whole-class discussion.
Action and Expression: Internalize Executive Functions.
Chunk this task into more manageable parts. Check in with students after the first 2–3 minutes of work time. Invite students to share their reasoning about where they placed each axis and how they determined an appropriate scale. Some students may benefit from access to partially-created graphs with varying degrees of completion—for example, axes with or without unlabeled tick marks.
Supports accessibility for: Memory; Organization
Listening, Speaking: MLR2 Collect and Display.
Listen for and display vocabulary and phrases students use to justify their choice of axes (e.g., “minimum/maximum
\(x\)
- or
\(y\)
-coordinate” or “appropriate units”). Continue to update collected language students used to explain their reasoning to their peers. Remind students to borrow language from the display during paired and whole-class discussions.
Design Principle(s): Maximize meta-awareness
Student Facing
Here are three sets of coordinates. For each set, draw and label an appropriate pair of axes and plot the points.
\((1, 2), (3, \text-4), (\text-5, \text-2), (0, 2.5)\)
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\((50, 50), (0, 0), (\text-10, \text-30), (\text-35, 40)\)
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\(\left(\frac14, \frac34\right), \left(\frac {\text{-}5}{4}, \frac12\right), \left(\text-1\frac14, \frac {\text{-}3}{4}\right), \left(\frac14, \frac {\text{-}1}{2}\right)\)
[IMG]
Discuss with a partner:
How are the axes and labels of your three drawings different?
How did the coordinates affect the way you drew the axes and label the numbers?
Student Response
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Anticipated Misconceptions
Make sure that students label distances on their axes consistently. For example, if the first tick mark after 0 is 3, then the next must be 6 in order for the spacing to be consistent.
Activity Synthesis
The key takeaway from this discussion is that defining axes and scale is a process of reasoning, not an exact science. Ask students to share their strategies about how to place and scale their axes. First, display previously selected student responses that capture the same data on their axes, but with slightly different origins or scales. Ask students which axes they think better represent the data. If not mentioned by students, point out that axes with a lot of empty space probably could benefit from either a different scale or a different origin. Select previously identified students to demonstrate a reliable strategy for finding the needed maximum or minimum. Link back to the warm-up when talking about how to scale the axes: if there are larger numbers, then a bigger scale makes more sense. Also draw attention to the fractional coordinates and how using decimal equivalents might make it easier to scale.


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