Coordinates (AQA GCSE Maths): Flashcards
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What are coordinates?
What are coordinates?
Pairs of numbers that show the exact position of a point on a grid
What is the origin?
What is the origin?
Point where axes cross, with coordinates
What is the x-axis?
What is the x-axis?
Horizontal line running left to right
What is the y-axis?
What is the y-axis?
Vertical line running up and down
Format for writing coordinates
Format for writing coordinates
In brackets as a pair:
First number in
First number in
Horizontal position - left or right from origin
Second number in
Second number in
Vertical position - up or down from origin
Negative values
Negative values
Points to the left of the origin
Negative values
Negative values
Points below the origin
