Max Maths, Year 3, Work Book, Position, direction and movement

In the "Max Maths Year 3 Workbook," the section on position, direction, and movement offers engaging practice for young learners to understand spatial relationships. Practice 1 invites children to express their creativity while reinforcing their comprehension of positional language. The activity requires them to draw four different scenes: a flower in a vase, a cat under a tree, a boy next to a girl, and a plane flying over a house. This task not only helps students to visualize and represent various positions but also allows them to practice their drawing skills.

Practice 2 shifts the focus to matching descriptions of spatial relationships to the correct images. The workbook presents a series of pictures within squares, each depicting common items such as a cup, plate, knife, and fork. The students are tasked with reading sentences that describe the position of one object relative to another, such as "The saucer is under the cup," and then finding the picture that accurately represents that sentence. This exercise reinforces the understanding of prepositions and spatial concepts, such as "on," "under," "right of," and "next to," by connecting them to familiar, everyday objects.