Printable Graph Paper and Grid Templates for GCSE and IGCSE Maths
Free blank maths paper for the classroom, with no sign-up — set up and printed in seconds — squared, dotted, isometric, coordinate grids, trig axes, number lines and blank Venn, tree and statistics templates. One to eight copies a page, and everything prints at true size, so a centimetre square really does measure a centimetre.
In the print dialogue choose Margins: None and Scale: 100% — that is what keeps the squares at their true size. Pick Save as PDF in the same dialogue if you want to keep a copy.
Every sheet, and what it is for
Ten kinds of blank paper, each with its own settings, and one to eight copies on a sheet with cut guides down the gutters. Nothing here is a fixed file: you set the sheet up and print it, so the spacing, the range and the number of copies are yours rather than whichever variant somebody happened to save out.
Squared paper and grid paper — 1 cm, 5 mm and 2 mm
Standard squared paper (grid paper) at 1 cm, 5 mm or 2 mm, with an optional heavier line every 5 or 10 squares. The heavier line is worth turning on for any question where pupils count squares rather than read a scale — areas of compound shapes, enlargements, and the counting-squares estimate of an area under a curve.
Dotted paper and dot grid paper
A dot grid at 1 cm or 5 mm. This is the paper for transformations: the dots give pupils the corners to plot without the lines that make a rotated or reflected shape hard to read. It is also what to hand out for drawing shapes with a given area or perimeter.
Isometric paper — dots or lines, for plans, elevations and 3D drawing
Isometric paper as a triangular line grid or as isometric dot paper, at 1 cm or 5 mm. The lattice is the one with vertical edges, so the uprights of a cuboid are upright and every other edge runs at 30°. That is the orientation a plan-and-elevation question needs. A lot of "triangular paper" downloads are turned the other way round, which makes drawing a solid on them very hard indeed.
Coordinate grids — one, two or four quadrant graph paper
Labelled axes on a coordinate grid (coordinate plane), with one, two or four quadrants, x and y running as far as you need, numbered or blank. One quadrant suits travel graphs and anything where negatives would only confuse; four quadrants is what plotting straight line graphs and plotting quadratic graphs need. Ask for more range than fits and the squares shrink to suit — and the sheet then says so in its corner, 1 square = 5 mm, rather than quietly printing a scale nobody was told about.
Trigonometric graph paper — degrees or radians
Blank trig axes from 0° to 360°, out to ±360°, or 0° to 720°, with the heavier line at every 90° where each curve changes shape. Choose the −1 to 1 range for sketching sine and cosine graphs and −4 to 4 for tangent. The same axes can be labelled in radians — 0 to 2π, or −2π to 2π — for a class working past IGCSE.
Blank unit circle templates
A blank unit circle with degree ticks every 15°, 30° or 45°. It is the companion to the trig axes: what pupils need for finding the second solution in a range once the calculator has given them the first.
Printable number lines for inequalities
Four to ten number lines on a copy, over −10 to 10, −5 to 5, 0 to 10 or 0 to 20, with or without numbered ticks. For representing inequalities and for the number-line work in bounds and rounding. At eight copies to a landscape sheet that is twenty-four number lines on one page.
Blank Venn diagram templates — two and three sets
Two-set and three-set Venn frames, always inside the universal-set rectangle, because the rectangle is the part pupils leave out and the part the mark scheme is looking for. Label them ξ, A, B and C or leave them blank for pupils to fill in. Use them with Venn diagrams and set notation.
Blank probability tree diagram templates
Two-stage and three-stage tree diagrams, with a short rule above every branch for the probability and a rule at every end for the outcome — the layout that earns the method marks in probability tree questions.
Cumulative frequency and histogram graph paper
Framed axes with the origin in the corner, square cells and a blank rule under each axis for its title — which is where "cumulative frequency" and "frequency density" belong, and the label pupils most often forget. The frame for cumulative frequency curves, histograms, frequency polygons and scatter graphs.
Printing a class set
Every sheet takes 1, 2, 4, 6 or 8 copies to a page, with a dashed guide down each gutter to cut along and the address on every piece so a sheet still says where it came from after it has been cut up and photocopied. Most of these are wanted a fraction of a page at a time — a number line for an inequality, a blank tree for one probability question — and a full sheet each is a waste of paper and of the ten minutes before a lesson.
Choosing a sheet also turns the paper the right way round for it: a Venn frame covers 96% of a landscape page against 72% of a portrait one, while a statistics grid is the other way about. Change the paper afterwards if you would rather.
Printing these at true size
The sheets are drawn in millimetres and printed with no page margin of their own, so the only thing that can change the size is the print dialogue. Two settings matter: set Margins to None and Scale to 100% (not "Fit to page", which shrinks everything by a few per cent to clear the printer's unprintable edge). If a ruler on the printed page disagrees with the label, one of those two is the reason.
The same dialogue will make a PDF: choose Save as PDF as the destination instead of a printer, and you have a file to email or put on a shared drive.
Need questions on the paper rather than blank paper? The question projector generates IGCSE questions on any topic and prints them as a worksheet with an answer key, and practice by topic lists every topic with a room to work through on screen.