why is the numbering of quadriants anticlockwise and not clockwise Share with your friends Share 0 Neha Sethi answered this Dear student The positive direction is counterclockwise or anticlockwiseThe quadrant numbering increases in the counterclockwise direction,So do themeasures of angles.Start on the x axis.Moving into quadrant I,then II,III then IV is moving in the positive direction 0 View Full Answer Juhi Parikh answered this I think it is because that "x" axis comes first in an ordered pair so that x has to be negative first and the y coordinate has to be second. 0