Coordinate plane worksheet
A point is written (x, y). The x tells you how far across from the origin, right for positive and left for negative. The y tells you how far up or down. The two axes split the plane into four quadrants, numbered I to IV counterclockwise from the top right.
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How to do these
Where is the point ?
- x is negative, so the point is left of the y-axis.
- y is positive, so it is above the x-axis.
- Left and up is the top left: quadrant II.
The answer is Quadrant II.
Where students go wrong
Swapping the two numbers: going up by x and across by y. The first number is always across. The other slip is calling a point on an axis part of a quadrant; (0, 5) sits on the y-axis and is in none of them.
Also called ordered pairs, plotting points, quadrants, naming points on a graph or coordinates of a point.
What you can put on this worksheet
- Name the coordinates of a point
- What are the coordinates of point B? →
- Which quadrant a point is in
- Where is the point ? → Quadrant I
- Plot points
- → in Quadrant I; in Quadrant III; in Quadrant II
- Distance along a grid line
- Find the distance between and → unit
- On an axis, or in a quadrant
- Where is the point ? → On the y-axis
- A rectangle from its vertices
- A rectangle has vertices , , , . Find its perimeter. → units