Plot or read a coordinate

There is a specific mistake recorded against this skill: reads the vertical coordinate before the horizontal coordinate. 11+ papers are written to offer exactly that answer, so a child can be confident and still lose the mark. When it keeps happening, the fix is the misunderstanding rather than more questions.

Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. Read across the x-axis first and then up or down the y-axis - the first number in the pair is always the across one.

The skill map draws the line here: Axis range and quadrant are explicit. A question past that line is testing a different named maths skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.

The geometry strand holds 15 skills that are placed together on the skill map, and the pages next to plot or read a coordinate are preserve measure under a rigid transformation, reflect a coordinate and reflect a shape. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.

Use Coordinate Plotter, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to plot or read a coordinate, it runs in the browser with no account to make, these exercises are not scored and do not save learner records. The separate quiz sends answers for marking and shows a score, without saving an assessment record. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.