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Problem of the week

CCLS: 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.
CCLS.6.NS.C.6.C
Find and position integers and other rational numbers on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram; find and position pairs of integers and other
rational numbers on a coordinate plane.

Steven is a college student. He started his day in his room. Then attended classes in Math, English,
and Art Buildings. He ate lunch at the dining hall before meeting a friend at the History building.
The coordinate plane represents a map of Steven’s college campus.
Building Math English Art Dining History
Coordinate ( -5,3) (-6,0) (-2,-5) (0,-1) (6,5)

1. Lable each axis and graph each building as a point on a coordinate plane. Use the first letter
of each building to lable the points.

2. Model with words the locations from the origin

Building Location from the Origin

Math Ex: 5 units left, 3 units up
English
Art
Dining
History

3. Explain how to graph a point on the coordinate plane. What does the first coordinate tell you
what does the second coordinate tell you?
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