Position and Direction - Translations - Starter

The educational resource for Year 6 students focuses on various mathematical concepts, including multiplication, coordinate geometry, and understanding of the solar system. It begins with a 'Fluent in Four' revision segment, where students tackle four questions designed to test their arithmetic skills and knowledge of shapes. The first question asks students to multiply 392 by 8, followed by a multiplication involving place value components (four hundreds, three tens, and six ones) and half of 14. The third question challenges students to calculate a missing angle in a geometric figure, and the fourth requires them to write down the coordinates of points A, B, and C on a grid, reinforcing their understanding of positional language and the Cartesian coordinate system.

In addition to these mathematical exercises, the resource incorporates an astronomy-based question where students must examine a table listing planets, their distances from the sun in millions of kilometres, and their rotation periods relative to Earth time. With this information, students are prompted to determine how many planets are located more than 100 million kilometres from the sun. The correct answer is three: Venus, Earth, and Mars. This interdisciplinary approach not only enhances students' numeracy skills but also broadens their general knowledge. The resource concludes with the solution to the missing angle problem, which is 110 degrees, and provides the exact coordinates for the points A, B, and C as (3,-5), (5,2), and (-2,4), respectively.