Coordinate riddles
I’m the starting point for all.
Neither left nor right, up nor down.
I’m where the axes cross.
What point am I?
Answer: (0, 0)
If a point lies exactly on the y-axis, what is always true about its x-coordinate?
Answer: The x-coordinate is 0
Answer: The origin (0,0).
What are the coordinates of a point 4 units to the right of the origin and 2 units up?
Answer: (4,2)
In which quadrant are both x and y coordinates positive?
Answer: Quadrant 1
Both my x and y are negative.
I’m below and to the left of the origin.
Which quadrant do I live in?
Answer: Quadrant III
If x is positive and y is negative, which quadrant is the point in?
Answer: Quadrant IV
On which axis does the point (5,0) lie?
Answer: The x-axis.
In which coordinate is the point (-3,5) located?
Answer: Quadrant 2
If a point has coordinate (-5,3), in which quadrant does it lie?
Answer: Quadrant 2
You’ll find me on the x-axis.
I’m not at the origin.
My x is 6 and my y is 0.
Where am I?
Answer:(6,0)
In which quadrant are both x and y negative?
Answer: Quadrant III
On which axis does the point (0, -3) lie?
Answer: The y-axis.
What does the ordered pair (0,0) represent on the coordinate plane?
Answer: The origin, where the x-axis and y-axis intersect.
Which quadrant contains points where both x and y are negative?
Answer: Quadrant 3
My x is negative, and my y is positive.
I live in the quadrant where left meets up.
What quadrant am I in?
Answer: Quadrant II
If a point has a negative x and a positive y, which quadrant is it in?
Answer: Quadrant II
If a point has coordinates (0, Y), where will it be located?
Answer: On the y-axis.
If a point has coordinates (-6, -2), is it to the left or right of the y-axis, and above or below the x-axis?
Answer: Left of the y-axis and bellow the x-axis.
A point lies in Quadrant 4. What can you say about the signs of its coordinates?
Answer: x is positive, y is negative.
Here are 5 fun coordinate riddles to challenge students’ knowledge of the coordinate plane:
I’m in Quadrant I.
My x and y are both greater than zero.
Move 3 spaces right and 2 spaces up to get to me.
What point am I?
Answer:(3,2)
In which quadrant are both x and y positive?
Answer: Quadrant I
If a point lies on the x-axis, what is always true about its y-coordinate?
Answer: The y-coordinate is 0.
Plot the point (2,-4). What is its position relative to the origin?
Answer: 2 units to the right and 4 units down from the origin.
True or False: The point (0, -7) lies in one of the four quadrants.
Answer: False, it lies on the y-axis, not in a quadrant.