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🧭 Describing Movements on a Grid

Describe and follow movements on a grid — up, down, left, and right — counting squares to reach the right spot.

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~15 min

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🔢 Math

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Ages 6–12

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What you’ll learn

Moving on the GridUse the words up, down, left, and right to describe single moves and find where they land.On a grid you move one square at a time in four directions. Right and left slide you side to side, changing the across number, while up and down change the up number. Moving right or up makes a number bigger; moving left or down makes it smaller. Count the squares to see where you land.
Following DirectionsFollow a route of several moves in order and track your position after each one.Directions are a list of moves to follow in order, because each move starts where the last one ended. Moving right or left changes only the across number, and moving up or down changes only the up number. Tracking the numbers after each move tells you exactly where you are.

Questions this course answers

On a grid, moving one square to the right makes your across number…

Moving right slides you forward along the bottom line, so the across number grows.

You start on 4 and move right 3 squares. Where do you land?

Moving right 3 from 4 counts on: 5, 6, 7.

Moving LEFT on the grid does what to the across number?

Left is the opposite of right, so it makes the across number smaller.

From (2, 1) you move right 3 squares. What point do you reach?

Moving right changes only the across number: 2 + 3 = 5, and the up number stays 1.

Which move changes your UP number?

Up and down change how high you are, so they change the up number.

Why must you follow a route's steps in order?

Each move starts from where the last one ended, so doing them in order lands you in the right place.

Grounded in trusted sources

Khan Academy Kids
BBC Bitesize — KS2 Maths
NRICH — University of Cambridge
Britannica Kids

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