4-Quadrant Coordinate Mystery: Number 67
Bring coordinate graphing to life with this engaging 4-quadrant coordinate plane mystery picture activity! Students identify the coordinates of labeled scatter points, enter them into the table, and watch the graph automatically connect the points to reveal a hidden two-digit number. This hands-on worksheet strengthens students’ understanding of positive and negative coordinates, quadrants, and axis placement—key skills required in middle school math.
Perfect for 6th grade (CCSS 6.NS.C.6 & 6.NS.C.8) and also great reinforcement for 7th grade, this activity helps students practice reading coordinate grids, determining quadrant positions, and recognizing that points on the axes are not located in any quadrant. As students graph each point, they build spatial reasoning and develop confidence working across all four quadrants.
This worksheet also includes a powerful randomization feature, so each student receives a unique set of coordinates. The picture remains the same, but every learner gets different point locations—making this ideal for independent work, assessments, and preventing easy copying.
Skills Covered:
- Reading and writing ordered pairs
- Plotting points in all four quadrants
- Identifying quadrants and axis points
- Connecting points to form geometric figures
- Understanding signs of x- and y-coordinates
- Visual interpretation of coordinate graphs
Whether used as classwork, homework, assessment practice, or a fun warm-up, this coordinate graphing mystery picture adds excitement and meaning to learning the coordinate plane.
Learning Objective
Students will identify and record the coordinates of points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane, correctly determine the signs of x- and y-values, and use these coordinates to plot and connect points to form a figure. Students will also distinguish between points located in quadrants and points located on the axes.
Randomization Available
This worksheet supports full randomization, ensuring every student receives a unique version of the activity. When randomization is turned on each student gets a different arrangement of points, but the connected figure still forms the number 67. The difficulty remains the same, but copying answers is prevented.
💡 Tip: When assigning this activity to your classroom, you can optionally enable randomization to give each student a unique version of the problems. When you re-assign the same worksheet, each student will get a new set of questions, helping them master the content through repeated practice.
