If thats not the case heres another distance formula lesson available online. Write the formulas for midpoint and distance on the board. Its pretty simple and straightforward but it provides a great place for students to refer back to and organize everything we just discovered in one place.
To find the distance between two points x 1 y 1 and x 2 y 2 all that you need to do is use the coordinates of these ordered pairs and apply the formula pictured below.
When they were finished they completed the Midpoint and Distance Formula Stations MazeThis was the first time that Ive used a stations. The mipoint of the points and is the point that is halfway on the segment line connecting them. The distance formula is derived from the Pythagorean theorem. The distance formula is Distance x 2 x 1 2 y 2 y 1 2.