MathsYears 2–3Geometry - Position & Direction

Order and arrange patterns and sequences

Order and arrange combinations of mathematical objects in patterns and sequences; use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement including movement in a straight line and distinguishing between rotation as a turn and in terms of right angles

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    We describe where things are using words like left, right, above, below, between, and in front of.

  2. 2

    A full turn takes you all the way round to where you started. A half turn is halfway round. A quarter turn is a right angle.

  3. 3

    How many quarter turns make a full turn?

  4. 4

    Turns have a direction too: clockwise follows the clock hands, anticlockwise goes the other way.

  5. 5

    A robot faces north and makes a quarter turn clockwise. It now faces east. Another quarter turn clockwise and it faces south.

  6. 6

    Facing north, you make a half turn. Which way are you facing?

  7. 7

    A quarter turn is the same as which angle?

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