Students in Mr. Leve’s fifth grade math class were working on Coordinate Graphing this past week. What is Coordinate Graphing? Coordinate Graphing is a visual method for showing relationships between numbers on a coordinate grid. The coordinate grid consists of two perpendicular lines (or axes) that are labeled like number lines, on which points are plotted. The horizontal axis is the X-axis, and the vertical axis is the Y-axis. The point where the 2 axes intersect is called the origin. The numbers on the coordinate grid are used to locate points that are identified by an ordered pair of numbers; a number on the x-axis called the x-coordinate, and a number on the y-axis called the y-coordinate. Ordered pairs are written in parentheses and separated by a comma; (x-coordinate, y-coordinate). The concept of Coordinate Graphing is similar to the popular Milton Bradley board game Battleship. Mr. Leve’s students used Coordinate Graphing to plot and connect points that made a dog, a scarecrow, and back-to-school pencil.