Lesson Plan: Distance on the Coordinate Plane: Pythagorean Formula Mathematics • Third Year of Preparatory School
This lesson plan includes the objectives and prerequisites of the lesson teaching students how to find the distance between two points on the coordinate plane using the Pythagorean theorem.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- find the distance between two points in the coordinate plane using the Pythagorean theorem,
- find a missing coordinate given the distance between two points,
- solve word problems by finding the distance between two points on the coordinate plane.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- finding horizontal and vertical distances in the coordinate plane,
- finding missing lengths using the Pythagorean theorem.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- 3D coordinates.
