Graphing Pictures on the Coordinate Plane Using Microsoft Paint and Office 2013
Go to Microsoft Paint (Do a search on your PC)
From the Home menu select Paste From...
Select the picture you want to draw and click on Open.
Click on Start and bring up MS Word. Center your drawing on the screen. Click on Start and bring up MS Word.
From the Insert menu select Table, Insert Table .
Try 35 columns and 30 rows.
From the View menu select Zoom.
Try 170%.
The idea is to fill your screen with the grid... before you click Control-Print Screen on the keyboard... which places your grid on the clipboard.
Restore Microsoft Paint
Select, Transparency Selection from the Select menu.
Select Paste from the Edit menu.
The result is a grid superimposed over your drawing. The grid can be moved to suit you.
Use lines from Autoshapes to draw x- and y-axes. Be sure to follow one of the lines of the grid as you create the axes.
Use lines from Autoshapes to draw x- and y-axes. Type your name on the grid.
Print the gridded picture. Be sure to include your name.
Highlight points with integral coordinates, i. e Highlight points with integral coordinates, i.e., are at gridline intersections.
Open a new worksheet in Microsoft Excel
Looks like this!
gridded picture into the Excel document Enter all the coordinates of the gridded picture into the Excel document
SAVE YOUR EXCEL DOCUMENT!
Highlight the coordinates
From the Insert ribbon, go to Charts
Select X-Y Scatter Chart Type
Results should look similar to this, but more importantly, like the original picture
Don’t forget to put your name on it before you print it out!
Acitivity adapted from www.colin.edu/gedonline