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Here are some specific activities, investigations or visual aids we have picked out. Click anywhere in the grey area to access the resource. The options may go beyong the scope of this level of the Functional Skills requirements.

• Coordinate Plotter Drag the given points so that they are in the correct positions according to their coordinates.
• Coordinates Picture Plot the coordinates and join them with straight lines to produce a picture.
• Coordinates Video For those who would like a reminder about coordinates here it is. This video is to help you do the online, self-marking exercises
• Coordinates A self marking exercise on identifying coordinates culminating in finding the mid point of two given points.
• Where's Wallaby? Find the hidden wallaby using the clues revealed at the chosen coordinates.

Click on a topic below for suggested lesson Starters, resources and activities from Transum.

• Coordinates It is important that pupils become proficient at understanding coordinates at a basic level before using them in their study of graphs. Plotting points and finding the coordinates of points are the pre-requisite skills for studying a number of branches of mathematics. The Cartesian plane consists of a horizontal x-axis and a vertical y-axis that intersect at the origin (0, 0). The mathematician René Descartes developed the concept of the Cartesian plane while lying in bed one morning and observing a fly on the ceiling! Pupils should learn the conventions starting with knowing that the horizontal axis is the x-axis and the vertical axis is the y-axis (remember x is a cross so the x axis is across!). The axes meet at the origin which has coordinates (0,0). Coordinates are written as two numbers separated by a comma and contained inside brackets. For example (3,9) means the point is above 3 on the x-axis and level with 9 on the y-axis. To get to this point from origin you go along 3 and up 9 (remember to go along the hall before going up the stairs or that pole vaulter has to run along before leaping up into the air!). Coordinates can be positive or negative (remember points to the right of the origin have a positive x-coordinate – being positive is right!). The abscissa often refers to the horizontal coordinate of a point and the ordinate refers to the vertical coordinate. In three dimensions, three perpendicular lines are defined as the axes and the coordinates of each point is defined with three numbers.