{"id":3174,"date":"2017-07-19T18:22:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T01:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2017-07-19T18:22:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T01:22:57","slug":"scratch-math-x-y-axis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/07\/19\/scratch-math-x-y-axis\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch &#8211; Math: x y axis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience teaching Math to grade 6 and 7 students, I have found that incorporating Scratch (https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/) has helped solidify most students understanding of x y axis and coordinates. If you&#8217;ve never used Scratch before, it&#8217;s a free, on-line programming software that allows you to program and code animations and games. Scratch uses a coordinate system, which determines where you place sprites and which directions you want them to move. Each sprite has two values to locate its reference point. The students I have worked with quickly pick up how the x-y axis works. As an educator, you can set up student accounts to see their work and help share it on their digital portfolios. It&#8217;s also a way for students to share evidence of their learning in math. This is a youtube video to show you the basics:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scratch Basics Lesson 1 Motion  xy grid\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uOJbqyhsvZk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scratch Ed (http:\/\/scratched.gse.harvard.edu\/) is a site dedicated to educators. You can exchange resources, share ideas, and ask questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience teaching Math to grade 6 and 7 students, I have found that incorporating Scratch (https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/) has helped solidify most students understanding of x y axis and coordinates. If you&#8217;ve never used Scratch before, it&#8217;s a free, on-line programming software that allows you to program and code animations and games. Scratch uses a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49943,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669394],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-sharing-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49943"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}