Clarifications
Clarification 1: Instruction includes finding distances between points, computing dimensions of a rectangle or determining a fourth vertex of a rectangle.Clarification 2: Problems involving rectangles are limited to cases where the sides are parallel to the axes.
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MFAS Formative Assessments
Students are asked to graph two points given their coordinates and to find the coordinates of two other points so that the four points represent the vertices of a square.
Students are asked to draw a polygon given the coordinates of its vertices and to determine the perimeter of the polygon.
Students are given coordinates of three vertices of a rectangle and asked to determine the fourth vertex and the area of the rectangle.
Students are given the coordinates of the vertices of a rectangle and are asked to graph the rectangle and find its perimeter.
Students are asked to draw a polygon given the coordinates of its vertices, and to determine the area of the polygon.
Students are asked to draw a polygon given the coordinates of its vertices and to determine both the lengths of sides and if any sides are parallel.
Students are asked to draw a polygon given the coordinates of its vertices and to determine the length of the polygon’s diagonals.
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This Khan Academy tutorial video presentation represents a word problem's solution on a coordinate plane to determine the number of blocks walked from a home to a school.
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This video demonstrates solving word problems involving the coordinate plane.
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