Coordinates in 4 Quadrants - Plotting and Finding Points

This set of worksheets will enable your students practice plotting and reading coordinates in all 4 quadrants of a Cartesian plane where the numbers are positive and negative with a range of different graphic images leading up to points located on an x-y graph simply with letters.

For each set of graphics (leaves, astronaut icons, geometric shapes, and letters)  

There are two separate activities:

• - Finding the coordinates of points on an x-y Grid in the 4 Quadrants

• - Given set of coordinates, locate their position on an x-y Grid in the 4 Quadrants

In addition, for a final set of worksheets, again there are the two activities, however this time the coordinates or points drawn on the axis form geometric shapes. This provides a good starting point for further questioning or investigation that could include:

• - naming the shapes

• - drawing lines of symmetry and labeling coordinates on the line

• - finding the coordinate of the center of each shape

• - apply simple transformations and noting the new coordinates ..........

How many Worksheets in total ? 

Virtually Unlimited, because at the click of a button all the numbers or positions of the objects are randomized providing you with a new set of questions for classwork, homework, revision, assessments etc.

You could also use any of the worksheets to explain or introduce the subject to your class as you will have almost unlimited examples to work with and they will be different from the actual worksheets you hand out to  your students.   

You will also have 2 sets of blank worksheets so that your students can create their own worksheets, or use them for the investigations suggested above 

Answers can be found on the second page of every worksheet, automatically generated when you create a new worksheet.

Note
These resources are PDF documents and work with the official  Adobe Acrobat Reader on Windows or Mac computers with the randomising buttons also working via a touchscreen (PC or Mac)or on an Interactive Whiteboard.

Common Core Standards

CCSS5.G.A.1

Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., 𝘹-axis and 𝘹-coordinate, 𝘺-axis and 𝘺-coordinate).

Australian Curriculum

Introduce the Cartesian coordinate system using all four

quadrants (ACMMG143)

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