COORDINATE PLANE REVIEW QUIZ Answer Key
(MAFS.6.NS.3.6/MAFS.6.NS.3.8)
1. What letter symbolizes the first number in an ordered pair?
a. Y
b. G
c. T
d. X
2. What letter symbolizes the second number in an ordered pair?
a. Y
b. G
c. T
d. X
3. When plotting points on a coordinate plane which direction should we go first?
a. Left or Right
b. Up or Down
4. After locating the first coordinate, in what direction should we go next?
a. Left or Right
b. Up or Down
5. What type of integer is to the left of the origin on the x-axis? (negative or positive)
6. What type of integer is to the right of the origin on the x-axis? positive
7. What type of integer is above the origin on the y-axis? positive
8. What type of integer is below the origin on the y-axis? negative
9. What are the characteristics of an ordered pair in each of the following quadrants?
a. Quadrant I – ( +
, + )
b. Quadrant 2 - (
- , + )
c. Quadrant 3 - (
- , )
d. Quadrant 4 - ( + , - )
10. What is significant about two points that have the same first coordinate or the same 2nd
coordinate? They are located on the same line.
11. How can you accurately find the distance between two points that have the same first
coordinate or the same 2nd coordinate? Counting or Subtract (Absolute Value)
12. Using the coordinate map of the school that you created, explain how I can find the office if I
am currently located in the cafeteria. (For example, 5 units to the left and 2 units down).
***answers will vary depending on where the coordinates are located***
Connection to transformations
13. What is the ordered pair associated with the reflection of the cafeteria over the x-axis?
(
,
) ***answers will vary depending on where the coordinates are located***
14. What is the ordered pair associated with the reflection of the cafeteria over the y-axis?
(
,
) ***answers will vary depending on where the coordinates are located***
15. How would you advise a new student who is dehydrated due to vigorously playing basketball in
the gym to go wait on their bus(on the bench#1 near the bus ramp) after getting a drink of
water at the water fountain? 5 units to the right and 10 units up.
16. Each unit on the coordinate plane measures one centimeter. Suppose 1 cm = 1 yard(in the real
world), how many yards in each direction would the student referred to in #15 have to travel
before arriving at bench#1? 5 yards to the right (stop and then go) 10 yards up; totaling 15
yards.