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This is a great virtual manipulative to use if you are going to teach students to graph on a coordinate plane. Even though this virtual manipulative is very simple, it is an excellent learning aid because it gives students immediate feedback as to whether they are correct or not. In order to get this feedback, all students have to do is plot the points and click on the check answer button. The program will tell a student whether he or she got all the points correct, some of them correct, or none of them correct. It will even indicate which specific points are correct and which ones are not. The ones that are not correct will show up red, and the ones that are correct will show up green.
Another nice thing about this program is that it makes it easy to provide differentiated instruction. For the students who are good at graphing, they can do the program without the grid values. However, the teacher can set the program to show grid values for the students who are not as strong at graphing. Also, the program contains many different problems, so students who are good at graphing can do additional programs while the students who are not as good at graphing can complete fewer problems.
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