History
The method of describing the location of points in this way was proposed by the French mathematician René Descartes (1596 - 1650). (Pronounced "day CART"). He proposed further that curves and lines could be described by equations using this technique, thus being the first to link algebra and geometry. In honor of his work, the coordinates of a point are often referred to as its Cartesian coordinates, and the coordinate plane as the Cartesian Coordinate Plane.
A system of geometry where the position of points on the plane is described using an ordered pair of numbers.
To introduce the idea, consider the grid on the right. The columns of the grid are lettered A,B,C etc. The rows are numbered 1,2,3 etc from the top. We can see that the X is in box D3; that is, column D, row 3.
D and 3 are called the coordinates of the box. It has two parts: the row and the column. There are many boxes in each row and many boxes in each column. But by having both we can find one single box, where the row and column intersect.
In coordinate geometry, points are placed on the "coordinate plane" as shown below. It has two scales - one running across the plane called the "x axis" and another a right angles to it called the y axis. (These can be thought of as similar to the column and row in the paragraph above.) The point where the axes cross is called the origin and is where both x and y are zero.
Things you can do in Coordinate Geometry
If you know the coordinates of a group of points you can:
Determine the distance between them
Find the midpoint, slope and equation of a line segment
Determine if lines are parallel or perpendicular
Find the area and perimeter of a polygon defined by the points
Transform a shape by moving, rotating and reflecting it.
Define the equations of curves, circles and ellipses.
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