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Mathematics
Quarter 1 - Module 5
Rectangular Coordinate System

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Quarter 1 – Module 5: Rectangular Coordinate System
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Mathematics
Quarter 1 - Module 5
Rectangular Coordinate System
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 Table of Contents

What This Learning Package is About………………………………………………………...…i

What I Need to Know………………………………………………………………………………...i
How to Learn from this Learning Package………………………………………………………i
Icons of this Learning Package……………………………………………………………………ii
What I Know…………………………………………………………………………………………..iii

Lesson 1:
Rectangular Coordinate System…………..…………….……………….1
What’s In…………….………………………………………………………1
What’s New ………………………...……….……………………….……..1
What Is It…………………………………………………………………….2
What’s More ……………………………………………………………..…4
What I Have Learned ……………………………..……………………….5
What I Can Do………………………………………………………………6

Assessment………………….………………………………………………………….....7
Key to Answers……………………………………………………………………………9
References………………………………………………………………………………..10
What This Module is About

Have you seen a map? Can you locate where the Philippines is? In this
module, you will discover how places are located by learning what is a rectangular
coordinate system and its different parts. You will also learn how points are plotted
on the Cartesian Plane and what are its uses in real life.

What I Need to Know

At the end of this module, you should be able to:

 Illustrate the rectangular coordinate system and its uses. M8AL-Ie-1

How to Learn from this Module

To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:
1. Carefully read all the lessons.
2. Take your time in going thru each lesson.
3. Answer the pretest honestly. The purpose of the pretest is for you to
determine your prior knowledge before going thru the lessons and activities.
4. If you have a hard time understanding the lessons and activities, please do
take a break. Having breaks between lessons and activities will give you
some space where you can absorb the lesson well.
5. You can use the internet if you need more information about the lesson.

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Icons of this Module

What I Need to This part contains learning objectives that

Know are set for you to learn as you go along the
module.

What I know This is an assessment as to your level of

knowledge to the subject matter at hand,
meant specifically to gauge prior related
Knowledge
What’s In This part connects previous lesson with that
of the current one.

What’s New An introduction of the new lesson through

various activities, before it will be presented
to you

What is It These are discussions of the activities as a

way to deepen your discovery and under-
standing of the concept.

What’s More These are follow-up activities that are in-

tended for you to practice further in order to
master the competencies.

What I Have Activities designed to process what you

Learned have learned from the lesson

What I can do These are tasks that are designed to show-

case your skills and knowledge gained, and
applied into real-life concerns and situations.

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 What I Know

Find out how much you already know about this module. Write the letter that
you think is the best answer to each question on a sheet of paper. Answer all items.
After taking and checking this short test, take note of the items that you were not able
to answer correctly and look for the right answer as you go through in this module.

1. Which of the following statements does not describe about the rectangular
coordinate system?
A. The horizontal axis is called the y-axis.
B. The axes divide the plane into four quadrants.
C. The point where the axes meet is called the origin.
D. It is named after the French Mathematician René Descartes.

2. The second coordinate of the given ordered pair (x, y) is called __________.
A. ordinate B. abscissa C. origin D. quadrant

For items 3-4, refer to the figure on the right.

3. Give the coordinates of point A.
A. (-2, 3)
B. (3, 5)
C. (1, -3)
D. (-3, -4)
4. The coordinates of point B are ____.
A. (-2, 3)
B. (3, 5)
C. (1, -3)
D. (-3, -4)

5. State the quadrant in which the point (-3,2) lies. https://bit.ly/3eHQMDU

A. Quadrant I C. Quadrant III

B. Quadrant II D. Quadrant IV

Each item from 6-10 is worth 2 points.

6. In which quadrants do the following points lie respectively?
(1, –2), (– 2, – 4), (3, 4), (– 7, 8)
A. IV, III, I, II C. IV, II, I, III
B. I, II, III, IV D. II, IV, III, I

7. Which best describes the point (3, -4)?

A. It is 4 units above the x-axis and 3 units to the left of the y-axis.
B. It is 4 units below the x-axis and 3 units to the left of the y-axis.
C. It is 4 units above the x-axis and 3 units to the right of the y-axis.
D. It is 4 units below the x-axis and 3 units to the right of the y-axis.

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8. Which of the following is true about the points in Figure 1?
A. J is located in Quadrant III. C. C is located in Quadrant II.
B. B is located in Quadrant IV. D. G is located in Quadrant III.

9. The set of points plotted in Figure 2 are _____.

A. {(–3, –1), (–2, 1), (0, 0), (0, 3), (1, 2), (2, 0), (3, –2)}
B. {(–2, 3), (–1, –3), (0, 0), (0, 2), (1, –2), (3, 0), (2, 1)}
C. {(–2, 3), (–1, –3), (0, 0), (0, 2), (3, 0), (2, 1)}
D. {(–3, –2), (–1, 2), (0, 0), (0, 3), (2, –1), (2, 0), (3, –1)}

10. Plot and label the points indicated by the coordinate pairs. A(1, -1), B(-4, 5).
A. C.

B. D.

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 Lesson
Rectangular Coordinate
1 System

What’s In

A number line composes of positive and negative number. It is away to

visually put numbers in order. Zero is found on the middle of the number line. It
extends infinitely. It goes on and on and on. On the left side of zero are negative
numbers. On the right side of the number line are positive numbers. We put a point
or a dot to locate a number on the line. The numbers on the number line in form of a
point are called as coordinates of number line.

In the next section, you will find out one of the applications of a number line.

What’s New

The rectangular coordinate system is also known as the Cartesian

coordinate system after Renè Descartes, who popularized its use in analytic
geometry. The rectangular coordinate system is based on a grid, and every point on
the plane can be identified by unique x and y coordinates, just as any point on the
Earth can be identified by giving its latitude and longitude.

Activity 1: Locate Me!

This activity will give you a clear picture of how to use the rectangular
coordinate system by telling its specific location.

For example, you want to tell the location of the Student Center using the
map below. So, you say, the Student Center is located in column 2 of row B.
Therefore, it is located in grid section 2B. In which grid section is the Stadium? The
Stadium is in section 4D.

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Use the map above to answer the following questions:

(a) Find the grid section of the Residence Halls.
(b) What is located in grid section 4C?

What Is It

The rectangular coordinate

system consists of two real number
lines that intersect at a right angle.
The horizontal number line is called
the x-axis, and the vertical number
line is called the y-axis. These two
number lines define a flat surface
called a plane, and each point on
this plane is associated with
an ordered pair of real numbers
(x, y). Ordered pair or coordinates
is a pair of numbers that locate a
point in the coordinate plane. The
first number of an ordered pair
corresponds to a number on the x-axis called the abscissa or x-coordinate. The
second number of the ordered pair corresponds to a number on the y-axis called
they-coordinate or ordinate. The intersection of the two axes is known as
the origin, which corresponds to the point (0, 0).

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 This system is often called
the Cartesian coordinate system, named
after the French mathematician René
Descartes (1596–1650).The x- and y-axes
break the plane into four regions
called quadrants, named using Roman
Numerals I, II, III, and IV, as pictured. In
quadrant I, both coordinates are positive. In
quadrant II, the x-coordinate is negative
and the y-coordinate is positive. In quadrant
III, both coordinates are negative. In
quadrant IV, the x-coordinate is positive
and the y-coordinate is negative.

An ordered pair (x, y) represents the

position of a point relative to the origin. The x-
coordinate represents a position to the right of
the origin if it is positive and to the left of the
origin if it is negative. The y-coordinate
represents a position above the origin if it is
positive and below the origin if it is negative.
Using this system, every position (point) in the
plane is uniquely identified. For example, the
ordered pair (2, 3) denotes the position
relative to the origin as shown in the figure at
the right.

Illustrated below is a Rectangular Coordinate System.

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 What’s More

Illustrative example 1:
Plot the ordered pair (−3, 5) and determine the quadrant which it lies.

Solution:
The ordered pair (−3, 5) is read as “the point negative three five” or just
“negative three five”. To plot the given ordered pair, you have to know the following
rules:

1. Locate the x-coordinate −3 along the x-axis

which is 3 units to the left from the origin and
then draw an imaginary line parallel to the y-
axis thru −3.

2. Locate the y-coordinate 5 along the y-axis

which is 5 units above from the origin and
then draw an imaginary line parallel to the x-
axis thru 5.

3. Mark the intersection of the two imaginary

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lines with a dot. That dot is already your
point with coordinates (-3, 5).

4. Label the point. You may omit the imaginary lines when your skills in plotting of
points have been developed.

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Therefore, the point is located in the second quadrant.

Activity 2: Identify and Plot Me!

Draw a Cartesian plane. Plot and label the following points.

1. (4,0) 2. (−6,0) 3.(0,3) 4.(–2,6) 5.(–4,−6)

Activity 3: Locate the Object!

How do you think can we apply rectangular coordinate system in real life? This
activity will enable you to give the coordinates of the point where the object is
located.
Direction: Describe the location of each point below by the completing the following
table. An example is done for you.

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What I Have Learned

Activity 4: Generalization

How can the Rectangular Coordinate System be used in real life?

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Summary
Let’s summarize. You have learned that:

1. To illustrate rectangular coordinate system we need to draw the Cartesian

plane is composed of two perpendicular number lines. The horizontal number
line is called the x-axis and we label it with the letter x. The vertical number
line is called the y-axis and we label it with the letter y.

2. Remember that the plane is divided into four quadrants.The signs of the first
and second coordinates of a point vary in the four quadrantsas indicated
below.
Quadrant I x > 0, or x is positive y > 0, or y is positive or (+, +);
Quadrant II x < 0, or x is negative y > 0, or y is positive or (–, +);
Quadrant III x < 0, or x is negative y < 0, or y is negative or (–, –);
Quadrant IV x > 0, or x is positive y < 0, or y is negative or (+, –).

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 3. The points which lie in the x-axis have coordinates (x, 0) and the points which
lie in the y-axis have coordinates (0, y), where x and y ∈ ℜ.

What I Can do

Activity 5: Let’s do this!

Name:____________________________

Date:___________ Score:____________

Plot, label and identify the quadrant of the

following coordinates:

1. (-3,2)
2. (4,-3)
3. (-2,-4)
4. (5,3)

For you to learn more about Rectangular Coordinate System, just click the
link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3H_nZDmEgs.

Assessment: (Post-Test)

Find out how much you have learned about this module. Write the letter that
you think is the best answer to each question on a sheet of paper.

1. The following describes about the rectangular coordinate system

I. Coordinates written in parentheses are called an ordered pair.
II. The point where the axes meet is called the origin.
III. The axes divide the plane into four quadrants.
IV. The horizontal axis is called the y-axis.
A. I and II only C. III and IV only
B. II and III only D. I, II, and III only

2. The first coordinate of the given ordered pair (x,y) is called __________.
A. ordinate B. abscissa C. origin D. quadrant

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For numbers 7-8, refer to the figure on the right
3. Give the coordinates of point C.
A. (0, 0)
B. (2, 4)
C. (0, -4)
D. (-5, -2)

4. The coordinates of point D are _____.

A. (0, 0)
B. (2, 4)
C. (0, -4)
D. (-5, -2)
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5. State the quadrant in which the point (7, 12) lies.

A. Quadrant I C. Quadrant III
B. Quadrant II D. Quadrant IV

Each item from 6-10 is worth 2 points.

6. In what quadrants do the following points lie respectively?
(–2,1), (2, – 4), (–3, –4), (7, 8)?
A. IV, III, I, II C. IV, II, I, III
B. I, II, III, IV D. II, IV, III, I

7. Which best describes the point (3, 4)?

A. It is 4 units above the x-axis and 3 units to the left of the y-axis.
B. It is 4 units below the x-axis and 3 units to the left of the y-axis.
C. It is 4 units above the x-axis and 3 units to the right of the y-axis.
D. It is 4 units below the x-axis and 3 units to the right of the y-axis.

8. Which of the following is true about the points in Figure 1?

A. J is located in Quadrant II. C. C is located in Quadrant III.
B. B is located in Quadrant I. D. G is located in Quadrant IV.

9. The set of points plotted in Figure 2 are _____.

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 A. {(–3, –1), (–2, 1), (0, 0), (0, 3), (1, 2), (2, 0), (3, –2)}
B. {(–2, 3), (–1, –3), (0, 0), (0, 2), (1, –2), (3, 0), (2, 1)}
C. {(–2, 3), (–1, –3), (0, 0), (0, 3), (1, –2), (2, 0), (3, 2)}
D. {(–3, –2), (–1, 2), (0, 0), (0, 3), (2, –1), (2, 0), (3, –1)}

10. Plot and label the points indicated by the coordinate pairs. A(1, 1), B(-4, 5).
A. C.

B. D.

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Pre-test Post-test Activity 5
1. A 1. D
2. A 2. B
3. B 3. D
4. A 4. C
5. B 5. A
6. A 6. D
7. D 7. C
8. D 8. A
9. A 9. C
10. C 10. D
Activity 1
a. 4A
b. Tiger Field
Activity 2
Activity 3
Activity 4
Rectangular Coordinate System can be used in real life by locating the
coordinates of places, things, etc.
Key to Answers
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Abuzo et al. 2013, Mathematics Learner’s Module Grade 8, p. 119-131

Brennan, James, “Understanding Algebra”, Accessed on June 17, 2020

https://www.jamesbrennan.org/algebra/lines/rectangular_coordinates.htm

Enginerdmath, “Rectangular Coordinate System”, March10, 2019, Accessed on June

17, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3H_nZDmEgs

Libretexts, “Use the Rectangular Coordinate System”, April 24, 2020, Accessed on
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Algebra/Book%3A_Prealgebra_(OpenStax)/11%3A_Graphs/11.01%3A_Use_the_Re
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Lumen, “The Rectangular Coordinate System and Graphs”, November, 19, 2019,
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Marecek and Smith, “Elementary Algebra”, July 29, 2019, Accessed on June 17,
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coordinate-system/

Saylordot.org, “Rectangular Coordinate Sytem”, Accessed on June 17, 2020

https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_elementary-algebra/s06-01-rectangular-coordinate-
system.html#:~:text=Use%20the%20rectangular%20coordinate%20system,above%2
0or%20below%20the%20origin.

Teaching Guide Mathematics Grade 8 Module 3 pp. 9, 93

Rectangular Coordinate System 1 MULTIPLE CHOICE,4.1.28 , valenciacollege.edu ›

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