Coordinate Plane Paper

Printable coordinate plane paper for 8.5 x 11 inch paper: a quarter inch grid with drawn and numbered x and y axes, so a point can be plotted and read back without counting squares from the edge of the page. Print it with all four quadrants, or with the first quadrant only for work that stays in positive numbers.

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Coordinate planes

Four quadrantsFirst quadrant

Squares

¼ inch¼ inch, bold inch lines1 inch1 cmEngineeringWith name block

Dots & shapes

DotsIsometric dotsIsometric linesPolar

STAAR sizes

Grades 3–5, 1 cmGrades 6–8, 5 mmAlgebra I, 0.16 in

Coordinate plane. Numbered x and y axes that cross at the center.First quadrant grid. Numbered axes along the bottom and left edges.Quarter inch graph paper. Four squares to the inch. The everyday grid.Quarter inch with heavy inch lines. A heavier line every inch for faster counting.One inch graph paper. Big squares for young students and hands-on work.Centimeter grid paper. Metric squares, 1 cm each.Engineering graph paper. Squares of 0.2 inch with a heavier line every inch.Graph paper with a name block. Quarter inch squares with a name and date line.Dot paper. Dots instead of lines, for shapes and area models.Isometric dot paper. A triangle dot pattern for drawing 3-D shapes.Isometric graph paper. A triangle grid for cube drawings and 3-D sketches.Polar graph paper. 10 rings and 24 rays for angles and polar points.1 cm grid — STAAR grades 3–5. Same square size as the STAAR grades 3–5 grid paper.5 mm grid — STAAR grades 6–8. Same square size as the STAAR grades 6–8 grid paper.0.16 inch grid — STAAR Algebra I. Same square size as the STAAR Algebra I grid paper.

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The grid

PatternSquaresDotsIsometricIsometric dotsEngineeringPolar

Square size

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Heavier line everyNo heavier lines2 squares4 squares5 squares8 squares10 squares

Axes

Draw x and y axes Number them

ShowAll four quadrantsFirst quadrant only

How it prints

Line darkness100% — lighter lines save ink and are easier to draw over.

The page

Margin

incm

Sheets in this PDF

Name and date line Border DadsWorksheets logo at the foot

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Square grid · 0.25 in · numbered axes · 1 sheet

Print at 100% or Actual size — not “Fit to page”, which shrinks the sheet and makes the measurements wrong.

Square grid · 0.25 in · numbered axes · 1 sheetUS Letter · print at 100%

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Four Quadrants or the First

Use the Show setting under Axes to choose between them.

• All four quadrants puts the origin at the middle of the page, with negative values to the left and below it. This is the sheet for plotting points with negative coordinates, graphing lines and reflecting or rotating shapes about the origin.
• First quadrant only puts the origin at the bottom left and numbers run up and to the right. It suits younger students meeting coordinates for the first time, and any graph of real quantities — time, money, distance — that never goes below zero.

The numbers sit on their own grid lines, and the outer border line of the four-quadrant grid is left unnumbered, because a number printed there could only straddle the edge of the grid.

Graph Paper With Axes, Without the Numbers

The two axis settings are separate. Switch off Number them under Axes and you get plain graph paper with two heavier lines through the origin — the version many teachers prefer for a test, because students have to establish the scale themselves. Switch off Draw x and y axes as well and you are back to plain graph paper.

Changing the Scale

The grid spacing decides how far the axes count. A quarter inch grid gives about 30 squares across and 40 up the page, so the four-quadrant sheet runs to roughly ±14 and ±19. Larger squares mean fewer, bigger units: half inch is easier to plot on and reaches about ±7 and ±9, and 1 cm lands in between. If a problem needs each square to be worth more than one unit, say so on the page and let students label the axes themselves.

Print at 100% or Actual Size, not "Fit to Page", so the squares stay square and a ruler still agrees with the grid.

More Printable Graph Paper

Plain graph paper in quarter, fifth, eighth and tenth inch, centimeter grid paper for metric work, isometric graph paper for 3-D drawing, and polar graph paper for angles and polar coordinates.