Three-part coordinate plane practice for Grade 5, in the first quadrant.
Work through these before or after you print the worksheet. The first four ask you to click the grid to plot a point, which is the part paper cannot check for you. The rest give you a point and ask for its ordered pair.
Click the grid to plot (6, 4).
(6, 4). Start at 0, go 6 across, then 4 up. The x-coordinate always comes first.
Click the grid to plot (0, 5).
(0, 5). The x-coordinate is 0, so you do not move across at all. The point sits on the y-axis, 5 up.
Click the grid to plot (7, 0).
(7, 0). The y-coordinate is 0, so you do not move up at all. The point sits on the x-axis, 7 across.
Click the grid to plot (3, 8).
(3, 8). 3 across, then 8 up. Going 8 across and 3 up lands somewhere completely different.
Which ordered pair names the point marked on the grid?
(2, 8). Count across first: 2. Then up: 8. The reversal (8, 2) is a different point, far to the right and low down.
Which ordered pair names the point marked on the grid?
(5, 6). 5 across, 6 up. Close pairs like this are the easiest to flip, so count the across number first every time.
Which ordered pair names the point marked on the grid?
(9, 1). 9 across, 1 up. Almost at the right edge and barely off the x-axis.
Which ordered pair names the point marked on the grid?
(4, 0). 4 across and 0 up. The point is on the x-axis itself, so the y-coordinate is 0, not blank.
No buttons on these. Say your answer out loud first, then check.
Priya says (3, 7) is the same place as (7, 3). Is she right?
No. The first number is always the x-coordinate and the second is the y-coordinate, so order matters. (3, 7) is 3 across and 7 up; (7, 3) is 7 across and 3 up. They only name the same point when the two numbers are equal, like (4, 4).
A point sits on the y-axis. What do you know about its coordinates?
Its x-coordinate is 0. You do not move across at all, so every point on the y-axis looks like (0, something).
One bag holds 2 apples. Write the ordered pairs for 1, 2 and 3 bags.
(1, 2), (2, 4) and (3, 6). The number of bags is x and the number of apples is y, so each step right adds 2 going up.
Why do we always write the x-coordinate first?
Because a pair of numbers only names one point if everyone agrees on the order. The rule is a convention, like reading left to right, and it is what makes (3, 7) mean one exact place.
Want it on paper? Download the free printable worksheet above: read-the-grid questions, two data tables to turn into ordered pairs, and a full answer key.