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module 4
15 Instructional days (15 hours)

Connecting Algebra and Geometry Through Coordinates


Description

In this module, students explore and experience the utility of analyzing algebra and geometry challenges through the framework of coordinates. The module opens with a modeling challenge, one that reoccurs throughout the lessons, to use coordinate geometry to program the motion of a robot that is bound within a certain polygonal region of the plane—the room in which it sits. To set the stage for complex work in analytic geometry (computing coordinates of points of intersection of lines and line segments or the coordinates of points that divide given segments in specific length ratios, and so on), students will describe the region via systems of algebraic inequalities and work to constrain the robot motion along line segments within the region.

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Credits

From EngageNY.org of the New York State Education Department. Geometry Module 4. Available from engageny.org/resource/geometry-module-4; accessed 2015-05-29.
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