We have a focus on geometry this term. If you've been following our Twitter, you would have noticed the work we have been doing with shapes.
This week we've been looking at position and orientation. Today we discussed times in our lives when we have used maps. When talking about travel maps in particular, we highlighted the grid patterns we often see and how these help us to pinpoint specific locations.
Our challenge today was to set up a scene (using toy animals from the junior school, maths equipment and other items we could find) and write a description so that others could try and recreate our scene.
We needed to use the co-ordinates as well as compass directions in our descriptions. This video has a few snippets of our work this morning.
What would happen if we wrote instructions for the reader to rearrange the pieces? Would that change the language we might use? What new knowledge might we need?
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