Targeting Console
Distance Formula Coordinate Plane Game
Enemy ships drift across a radar grid. Before students can fire, they have to work out the distance — one step at a time.
- Grades
- Grade 8 and Math 2
- Math
- The distance formula on the coordinate plane
- Format
- Solo, at each student's own pace
- Time
- 20–30 minutes
- Runs on
- Any browser — Chromebooks and projectors
How the game plays
- Students find the horizontal leg, then the vertical leg, then the distance, and enter each into the nav computer.
- Clearing all ten ships ends the mission with a celebration.
- A radar-sweep mode adds right-triangle trig for Math 2.
Skills covered
- Distance between two points on the coordinate plane
- Horizontal and vertical legs as a right triangle
- The Pythagorean theorem
- Trig ratios (radar mode)
Built-in questions follow the NC Standard Course of Study. You can upload your own question banks for any state's standards.
How to run it
Turn it on
In the Teacher Portal, switch the game on for your class and choose the topics or question bank it uses.
Introduce it
Open the slide deck from the game's resource shelf. Five minutes is enough to get students started.
Let students play
Students sign in with their login cards and open it from Games & Quests. Progress, XP and Gold save automatically.
Close the loop
Finish with the exit ticket from the resource shelf, or put a quick check on the Live Board.
Try Targeting Console with your class
Targeting Console is one of 19 games and labs in Numeria. A free trial unlocks all of them, plus the Teacher Portal, login cards, one class leaderboard, and the slides, guides and activities that come with every game.
Up to 6 class periods, 40 students each. Each request is approved by hand, usually within a day.
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