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Dots on a grid: 5th grade math

Coordinate plane, first quadrant. A free 5th grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: coordinate plane, first quadrant.

Teach (10 min)

  • The x-axis runs across. The y-axis runs up. They meet at the origin, (0, 0).
  • An ordered pair (x, y) says how far across, then how far up. In (4, 7), go right 4, then up 7.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/plane.axes?lesson=5-plane-axes-1&at=5

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. Which way does the y-axis run?
  • 2. In the ordered pair (6, 8), which number tells how far to go along the x-axis, left or right?
  • 3. In the ordered pair (8, 7), which number tells how far to go along the x-axis, left or right?

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. Which way does the y-axis run?
  2. In the ordered pair (6, 8), which number tells how far to go along the x-axis, left or right?
  3. In the ordered pair (8, 7), which number tells how far to go along the x-axis, left or right?
  4. Which point is on the x-axis?
  5. To plot the point (4, 6), you start at the origin. Which moves are right?
  6. In the ordered pair (6, 7), which number tells how far to go along the x-axis, left or right?
  7. To plot the point (9, 5), you start at the origin. Which moves are right?
  8. Which ordered pair names the origin, where the two axes cross?
  9. Which ordered pair names the origin, where the two axes cross?
  10. In the ordered pair (5, 7), which number tells how far to go along the x-axis, left or right?
Answers
  1. Up and down (vertical)
  2. The first number, 6
  3. The first number, 8
  4. (5, 0)
  5. right 4, then up 6
  6. The first number, 6
  7. right 9, then up 5
  8. (0, 0)
  9. (0, 0)
  10. The first number, 5

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Dots on a grid (5th grade)

  1. To plot the point (6, 9), you start at the origin. Which moves are right?
  2. To plot the point (5, 4), you start at the origin. Which moves are right?
  3. Which way does the y-axis run?
  4. In the ordered pair (3, 5), which number tells how far to go along the x-axis, left or right?
  5. Which way does the y-axis run?
  6. Which point is on the y-axis?
  7. In the ordered pair (4, 2), which number tells how far to go along the x-axis, left or right?
  8. Which way does the y-axis run?
  9. Which ordered pair names the origin, where the two axes cross?
  10. Which point is on the x-axis?
  11. In the ordered pair (7, 2), which number tells how far to go along the x-axis, left or right?
  12. One axis is red and the other is blue. Which line is the x-axis?
    xy−5−4−3−2−112345−5−4−3−2−1123450
Key
  1. right 6, then up 9
  2. right 5, then up 4
  3. Up and down (vertical)
  4. The first number, 3
  5. Up and down (vertical)
  6. (0, 5)
  7. The first number, 4
  8. Up and down (vertical)
  9. (0, 0)
  10. (5, 0)
  11. The first number, 7
  12. The red line

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