Primary/K-6: Position and Direction

As children navigate around their environment, they must learn about near and far, up and down, round and straight, and much more. Our activities extend and make explicit your child's ideas about spatial relations, which is a more complex and challenging topic than usually assumed.

"Teaching of spatial skills improves mathematics in general, including number understanding"
Cheng and Mix 2014; Hawes et al. 2017

Here are all the topics covered in Position and Direction in our Rainbow Ladder Maths

Join i2i Maths

Red

Where am I?

Orange

Clockwise/Anti-Clockwise

Yellow

Cha Cha Slide Dance

Green

Finding the Way

Blue

Eight Points of the Compass
Co-ordinates

Purple

Co-ordinates

Lilac

Co-ordinates (All 4 Quadrants)

Sample Material

Blue Level - Eight Points of the Compass

Activity One Either give your child a large paper circle or ask him/her to draw a circle and cut it out.

Purple Level - Using Co-ordinates

To consolidate knowledge of co-ordinates, your child can investigate the co-ordinates of a simple shape reflected across a diagonal line of symmetry.

Red Level - Introducing Position

Use a stool and a teddy and position the teddy in different places.

Blue Level - Eight Points of the Compass

Activity One Either give your child a large paper circle or ask him/her to draw a circle and cut it out.

Inspiring to Inspire Maths

Primary/K-6: Position and Direction

Red

Orange

Yellow

Green

Blue

Purple

Lilac

Sample Material

Blue Level - Eight Points of the Compass

Purple Level - Using Co-ordinates

Red Level - Introducing Position

Blue Level - Eight Points of the Compass

Areas of study