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Symmetrical Ordered Pair Puzzles Introduce Graphing

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Symmetrical Puzzles Help Your Students See Patterns
Symmetrical Ordered Pair Puzzles Introduce Graphing

An ordered pair puzzle

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Nothing helps your students cement their understanding of integers on an X Y graph like practice. Using puzzles creates "self correcting" activities, since you students will see the pattern and realize that they have done the puzzle correctly.

Beginning with simple, symmetrical puzzles will avoid overwhelming your students with too much information. This Star of David (Mogen David) is a simple two step puzzle with only six points.

A free printable PDF of the puzzle

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