Plot and Locate Points on a Coordinate Plane

(A) Describe the key attributes of the coordinate plane, including perpendicular number lines (axes) where the intersection (origin) of the two lines coincides with zero on each number line and the given point (0, 0); the x-coordinate, the first number in an ordered pair, indicates movement parallel to the x-axis starting at the origin; and the y-coordinate, the second number, indicates movement parallel to the y-axis starting at the origin

(B) Describe the process for graphing ordered pairs of numbers in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane

(Y5) Use a grid reference system to describe locations. Describe routes using landmarks and directional language (ACMMG113)

(Y6) Introduce the Cartesian coordinate system using all four quadrants (ACMMG143)

(Y7) Given coordinates, plot points on the Cartesian plane, and find coordinates for a given point (ACMNA178)

5.G.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).