SOLUTION: I am a special education teacher new to 5th grade math and need to verify that I am teaching the following correctly (please help!): If a point is 5 units from the x-axis and 2

Question 939426: I am a special education teacher new to 5th grade math and need to verify that I am teaching the following correctly (please help!):
If a point is 5 units from the x-axis and 2 units from the y-axis, is the ordered pair going to be (5,2) or (2,5)?
My understanding is that the entire horizontal line is the x-axis and the point (0,0) is the origin, so if a point is a number of units FROM the x-axis, wouldn't you begin at the x-axis and count up? Or, is it beginning at the ORIGIN of the x-axis and counting that many units along the x-axis/horizontal line? THANKS :)
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

"My understanding is that the entire horizontal line is the x-axis and the point (0,0) is the origin, so if a point is a number of units FROM the x-axis, wouldn't you begin at the x-axis and count ?" -Yes
Or, is it beginning at the ORIGIN of the x-axis and counting that many units along the x-axis/horizontal line?
if you beginning at the ORIGIN and if a point is units from the -axis means, and since is positive a point is somewhere in I or II quadrant
if a point units from the y-axis, means point is from y-axis to the right because is positive number
so, the point is in Ist quadrant and the ordered pair going to be (,)

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