Read the pointGrid to 6
Name: Date:
Write the ordered pair for each marked point.
1
B=
2
C=
3
D=
4
A=
5
A=
6
C=
7
B=
8
D=
Points on a coordinate grid worksheets
One first-quadrant grid with four points marked on it, and four questions beside it: what is A? what is B? Across first, then up. Free printable sheets, with an answer key.
If they get stuck
Points on a coordinate grid
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
Four points on ONE grid, not four grids with one point each. That sounds like a layout detail and it is the whole exercise: finding B on the same axes a child has just used to find A is the thing the standard asks for, and four separate pictures of the same plane quietly removes it.
Why this sheet works
Every grid carries at least one point on an axis, and those are the ones that matter. (4, 0) and (0, 4) are the same two digits in different places, so a child who has not yet learned which number travels which way gets them both wrong — and a sheet of comfortable interior points would never find that out. The origin itself is never asked, because it is the one point that can be named without reading either axis.
How this one works
Point B
- Start at the corner where the two lines meet — that is (0, 0), and every reading begins there.
- Along the bottom FIRST: count 3 across. Always this one before the other, because until you have gone along you do not know which line to go up.
- Then up: count 2. Now the two numbers have been used in the order they are written.
- So point B is (3, 2) — 3 across, then 2 up. (2, 3) would be a different point altogether.