City Grid Rescue Coordinate Mission

​City Grid Rescue: Coordinate Mission
in Integer City

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​ Mission Tasks:

​1. Plot each citizen’s location on the coordinate plane.
2. Plot the key locations in Integer City.
3. Identify the quadrant for each coordinate.
4. Calculate the distances from each citizen to a key location, using absolute value.
5. Determine the most efficient rescue order based on total travel distance.
6. Write a short rescue plan explaining your chosen path and reasoning.

​City Grid Rescue:
Coordinate Mission
in Integer City

Citizen and City Place Locations

»Hospital: (10, -7)
»School: (-9, -1)
»Power Plant: (10, 4)
»Fire Department: (6, 0)

»Julie: (-8,8)
»Christopher: (10, -4)
»Vanessa: (2, -7)
»Taye: (-5, -1)
»Alex: (6, 4)

»Police Station: (-10, 8)
»Apartment Complex: (-5, -7)
»Library: (2, -4)
»Park: (-2, 4)

Graphing

Graph each citizen's location:

»Julie: (-8,8)
»Christopher: (10, -4)
»Vanessa: (2, -7)
»Taye: (-5, -1)
»Alex: (6, 4)

Match

Match the person with their quadrant location:

• Julie is located in which quadrant?

• Christopher is located in which quadrant?

• Vanessa is located in which quadrant?

• Taye is located in which quadrant?

• Alex is located in which quadrant?

Quadrant II

Quadrant IV

Quadrant IV

Quadrant III

Quadrant I

• Quadrant II

• Quadrant IV

• Quadrant IV

• Quadrant III

• Quadrant I

Graphing

Graph Integer City's key locations:

»Hospital: (10, -7)
»School: (-9, -1)
»Power Plant: (10, 4)
»Fire Department: (6, 0)
»Police Station: (-10, 8)
»Apartment Complex: (-5, -7)
»Library: (2, -4)
»Park: (-2, 4)

Categorize

Options (7)

Power Plant

Police Station

Park

School

Apartment Complex

Library

Hospital

In Integer City, which quadrant is each place in?

Quadrant I

Quadrant II

Quadrant III

Quadrant IV

Drag and Drop

Which quadrant is the Fire Department located in?

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Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

No quadrant

Quadrant I

Quadrant II

Quadrant III

Quadrant IV

All the quadrants

Drag and Drop

Taye is ​

Placeholder

units from the School. Christopher is ​

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units from the Hospital. Alex is ​

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units from the Power Plant. Julie is ​

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units from the Police Station. Vanessa is ​

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units from the Library.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

2

3

6

4

5

1

7

8

9

10

Open Ended

What order should you rescue the citizens in?

Write a short rescue plan explaining your chosen path for rescues and your reasoning.

Be sure to write in complete sentences and use proper punctuation and capitalization.