Graph-It Game
[Photo by Scott Schram via Flickr.]
For Leon’s Christmas gift, Alex made the Graph-It game. She wrapped a pad of graph paper and wrote up the instructions:
To play Graph-It, one person designs a picture made by connecting points on a coordinate graph. He reads the points to the other player, who tries to reproduce the picture.
A Christmas Puzzle
Alex gave these instructions for Leon’s first graph. Can you draw the mystery picture?
You will need a graph about 30 squares wide by 25 high, with (0,0) in the bottom, left corner. Plot each ordered pair, and connect the points that have dashes between them.
(6,0) – (6,11) – (3,9) – (2,10) – (14,18) – (26,10) – (25,9) – (22,11) – (22,0)
(11,0) – (9,3) – (18,3) – (16,0)
(9,0) – (11,3) – (9,3) – (8,4) – (8,6) – (19,6) – (19,4) – (18,3) – (16,3) – (18,0)
(9,6) – (10,7) – (11,6) – (10,7) – (11,7) – (12,6) – (13,7) – (14,6) – (13,7) – (14,7) – (15,6) – (14,7) – (15,7) – (16,6) – (15,7) – (16,7) – (17,6) – (16,7) – (17,7) – (18,6)
Add a dot for the eye at (11,6.5).
(3,19) – (4,22) – (5,19) – (2.5,21) – (5.5,21) – (3,19)
To Be Continued…
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Excellent activity. I do this exact same thing after Christmas break with transformations.