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A warm-up for the start of class, before students play or start the worksheet. It reviews number lines and finding a place by row and seat using things students see every day, then asks them to think ahead to ordered pairs. Two tickets print on each page; cut along the dashed line. The answer key prints on its own page after it.

Entry Ticket: Find the Spot

Grades 5–6 · Warm-up · Reviews 2.MD.B.6, 6.NS.C.5
Name
1. Rows count from the stage, seats from the left. Which seat is yellow?
Row Seat
2. Which is colder: −2° or 1°?
3. What number is at the dot?
4. Think ahead: on a treasure map, the X is 3 squares to the right of the start and 2 squares up. How could you write that with two numbers? Does the order matter?

Answer Key: Entry Ticket

Find the Spot
  1. Row 2, Seat 5
  2. −2°
  3. 6
  4. Any clear way counts. Today's answer: (3, 2), across first, then up. Yes, order matters: (2, 3) is a different spot.

Quick read: students who say 1° is colder on #2 are thinking of distance from 0; use a thermometer before negative coordinates. Use #4 to open the lesson, then play Battle on the Coordinate Plane.