Coordinate System & and Order of Operations Vocabulary

The point where the two axes of a coordinate plane intersect. It is represented by the ordered pair (0,0).

• Coordinate system

• origin

• coordinate plane

• first quadrant

A horizontal line that includes both positive and negative numbers

• y-axis

• y-coordinate

• x-axis

• vertical axis

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The symbols used to enclose sections of a mathematical expression

• braces

• first quadrant

• brackets

• coordinate system

a grid that makes it easy to locate points in a plane using an ordered pair of numbers

• first quadrant

• coordinate system

• brackets

• coordinate plane

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A pair of numbers used to locate a point on a coordinate grid

• origin

• ordered pair

• coordinate grid

• x-coordinate

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CCSS.6.G.A.3

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the first number in an ordered pair which names the distance to the right or left from the origin along the x-axis

• y-coordinate

• first quadrant

• coordinate grid

• x-coordinate

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CCSS.6.NS.C.6

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the second number in an ordered pair which names the distance up or down from the origin along the y-axis

• x-coordinate

• y-coordinate

• x-axis

• y-axis

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CCSS.6.NS.C.8

The symbols used to indicate sets and bring things together in a mathematical expression

• brackets

• quotation marks

• first quadrant

• braces

the plane determined by a horizontal number line, called the x-axis, and a vertical number line called the y-axis intersecting at a point called the origin.

• ordered pair

• brackets

• coordinate plane

• coordinate system

the upper right hand corner of the graph, the section where both x and y are positive

• first quadrant

• y-axis

• coordinate grid

• second quadrant

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