Pi Day Math Activity Collaborative Coordinate Graphing Mystery Picture Poster

Middle School Bulletin Board Idea: Chicken Pot Pi - Graphing on the Coordinate Plane (4 Quadrants) Collaborative Group Project. No Prep Math & Art Class Project.

Practice ordered pairs plotting by using this 4-page collaborative project. You can use it for Pi Day or at any time of the year.

Students will practice graphing ordered pairs in all four quadrants on the coordinate plane. All 4 parts of the picture will be graphed on a four quadrant graph. All points are represented by integers only.

4 mystery pictures make 1 large picture.

Collaborative version (in groups of 4): students complete four separate mystery pictures, cut them out, and then tape them together to reveal one large mystery picture.

Each student colors their piece of the picture to tape them together and create one large poster size mystery picture.

Why do students love mystery picture graphing? They love discovering the next parts of the picture and guessing what it will be. This motivates them to do more and more math tasks. It also allows students to know if they have the correct answer, without the teacher releasing the answer key.

This geometry math activity is an engaging way to practice ordered pairs plotting. The picture is to be graphed in all four quadrants (positive and negative whole numbers). All points are represented by whole numbers, there are no fractions or decimals.

This resource includes:

- Student instructions with the ordered pairs and a coordinate plane with the numbers and x- and y-axis labeled.

- The answer key.

This resource includes:

- The editable PowerPoint™ version.

- The printable version in PDF.

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