Coordinate Plane Exit Slip

5th Grade MathGeometry3 pages

About this worksheet

A four-question exit slip for 5th grade math on the coordinate plane (Common Core 5.G.1 and 5.G.2). A printed first-quadrant grid shows three plotted points, and students read their coordinates: A at (1, 4), B at (5, 2), and C at (3, 0), the one sitting on the x-axis. They then write the steps for plotting point D at (4, 5) from the origin, and settle an argument: Marcus claims (2, 6) and (6, 2) name the same point because the digits match. The slip fits the last minutes of a lesson and grades quickly against its answer key.

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Curriculum objectives covered

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 O 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).

All four questions live here: reading coordinates for A, B and C, naming the origin, sequencing the plot of (4, 5), and using coordinate order to separate (2, 6) from (6, 2).

5.G.2

Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.

The slip stays on the bare first-quadrant grid rather than a story context; question 3's plotting of (4, 5) is the graphing practice, with no real-world interpretation asked.

What's inside this worksheet

Reading the Grid

Students write ordered pairs for the three plotted points, including C at (3, 0), whose zero y-coordinate trips up grid-corner counters, and identify the origin at (0, 0).

Applying Coordinate Rules

Question 3 asks for the exact plotting steps for D at (4, 5): start at the origin, 4 right along the x-axis, 5 up. Question 4 has students refute Marcus's claim that (2, 6) and (6, 2) coincide, using the axis names in their explanation.

Answer key

Model answers include the full Marcus rebuttal: the first number is horizontal distance, the second vertical, so the two points sit in different places.

How teachers use it

Same-day formative check

Hand it out five minutes before the bell on the day you introduce ordered pairs. Question 1's point C, with its y-coordinate of 0, tells you more than the other two points combined.

Sorting tomorrow's groups

Sort slips by question 4. Students who say Marcus is wrong but cannot say why go in the same reteach group as those who agreed with him.

Sub-plan safety net

The slip needs no manipulatives and no explanation beyond what is printed, which makes it a dependable cover-lesson task with built-in marking.

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