Battleship Coordinate Plane – Math Game
- Grades
- Grades 5–6, Elementary, Middle School
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Math, Geometry, Graphing
- Topic
- Ordered Pairs, Coordinate Plane
- Resource types
- Activities, Games, Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Standards
- 5.G.A.1
Product description
From the author
Partners place a five-ship fleet on the My Ships grid, record ordered pairs, and call coordinates to locate the other fleet. The printable page also has an Enemy Ships grid. Use the x-axis-first reminder to review coordinate order. Print the reminder on the back if helpful, and keep each player’s ship locations hidden.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Plot and record ordered pairs on a coordinate grid in (x, y) order.
Use coordinate notation to communicate and locate positions during a two-player game.
Teaching tips
Pair students up and have each plot their fleet privately before starting the guessing rounds.
Reinforce the x-before-y convention called out on the sheet before students begin plotting.
Use the game as a review station after a coordinate-plane lesson rather than as the first introduction to the concept.
Skills covered
Coordinate-plane plotting — students place ships by marking ordered pairs on a grid.
Ordered-pair notation — students read and write coordinates in (x, y) form to call out guesses.
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How is coordinate notation practiced?
Players record ship positions as ordered pairs and call coordinates to locate the other player’s fleet.
How many players take part?
The Battleship-style activity is designed for two players.
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Curriculum
Standards, concepts & topics
Standards
Standards
- 5.G.A.1 — Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS for MATHEMATICS GRADE 5 | 38 the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., x-axis and x-coordinate, y-axis and y-coordinate).
Core concepts
Core concepts
Coordinate plane
Ordered pairs
Topics
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