A one-page Year 4 coordinates sheet, with an answer key on page 2. Six grids from 0 to 8 each show part of a shape: two squares, two rectangles, a right-angled isosceles triangle and a parallelogram. The first grid shows corners at (1, 1), (4, 1) and (4, 4). Pupils write the missing corner under each grid. A challenge asks for the four corners of a square with one corner at (0, 0) and sides 3 long. It follows England National Curriculum Year 4 position and direction.
Geometry - position and direction
“describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant”
Pupils read the coordinates of the plotted points on each grid and write the missing corner as a pair.
Geometry - position and direction
“plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon”
The grids show the sides already drawn, so pupils decide where the last corner goes. Question 7 has them build a square from one point.
Six small grids with plotted points joined by lines. Pupils write the missing corner in the brackets under each one.
Item 5 shows only two points, (2, 2) and (2, 6), and asks for the third corner of a right-angled isosceles triangle with the right angle at (2, 2).
Question 7 asks for the whole-number coordinates of a square in the first quadrant with one corner at (0, 0) and sides 3 units long, in a box for working.
The missing corner for items 1 to 6 and the four corners for the challenge, which pupils may list in any order.
Warm-up
Read out the three points on grid 1 and ask pupils to predict the fourth before they write it. Check on the grid with a ruler.
Whiteboards
Copy the grid for item 6 onto the board and ask where the missing corner of the parallelogram goes. Pupils hold up the pair, then compare with a partner.
Early finishers
Give question 7 to pupils who finish first, then ask them to draw their square on squared paper and check each corner.
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