Position, direction, and movement
Use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction, and movement, including straight lines and distinguishing rotation as a turn in terms of right angles (quarter, half, three-quarter turns, clockwise and anti-clockwise)
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Separate moving along a line from turning to face a new direction.
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Separate moving along a line from turning to face a new direction.
Separate moving along a line from turning to face a new direction.
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Overlapping Rectangles
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Overlapping rectangles support talking about position and how shapes meet. Not every compass bearing.
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Before you openAsk the learner to describe the overlap using position words such as above, beside, or inside.
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Public Illustrative Mathematics task page. The .html address responds HTTP 308 to this URL. An anonymous GET of this URL on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt. Where a teacher solution is present, it is on the same page as the student task; this check did not find a separate locked student view. An adult can use the student view section and should not read a solution aloud. Advertising was not observed in the fetched HTML text; that is not a browser, device, or ad-free guarantee. This is a paper or discussion task, not an automatically marked interactive game. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. Diagrams on the page use missing or filename-only alt text, so they are not an accessible image equivalent. Accessibility still depends on an adult describing the picture.
Illustrative Mathematics. “Overlapping Rectangles.” Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. External task; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute it.
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Check understanding
- Use terms such as clockwise, anti-clockwise, quarter turn, half turn, three-quarter turn
- Describe a right angle as a quarter turn
- Give and follow directions involving straight-line movement and turns
“Can your child follow directions like "turn clockwise a quarter turn" or "move three squares to the right" on a grid or in a simple navigation game?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Language
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Geometry
- Age range
- Ages 6–12
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