AC9M5SP02 Year 5 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 Mathematics provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

construct a grid coordinate system that uses coordinates to locate positions within a space; use coordinates and directional language to describe position and movement

Elaborations

• 1 understanding how the numbers on the axes on a grid coordinate system are numbers on a number line and are used to pinpoint locations
• 2 discussing the conventions of indicating a point in a grid coordinate system; for example, writing the horizontal axis number first and the vertical axis number second, using brackets and commas
• 3 comparing a grid reference system to a grid coordinate system (first quadrant only) by using both to play strategy games involving location; for example, “Quadrant Commander”, deducing that in a grid coordinate system the lines are numbered (starting from zero), not the spaces
• 4 placing a coordinate grid over a contour line, drawing and listing the coordinates of each point in the picture, asking a peer to re-create the drawing using only the list of coordinates, and discussing the reasons for the potential similarities and differences between the \(2\) drawings
• 5 investigating how autonomous vehicles use mapping, GPS systems, communication systems and path planning to navigate within a space

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