Making turns on Pirate Island

Making turns on Pirate Island

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This task is about rotation and direction.

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Anita, Ben, and Camilla are on Pirate Island.
Write the names of the places they face if they each make the following turns.
a)  Anita is facing Golden Port. She makes a quarter turn clockwise. 
     What place is Anita facing now? 
 
b)  Ben is facing Skull Town. He makes a 3-quarter turn anti-clockwise.
     What place is Ben facing now? 
 
c)  Camilla is facing Parrot Swamp. She makes a half turn clockwise. 
     What place is Camilla facing now? 
 
d)  Anita is facing Golden Port. She makes a full turn anti-clockwise. 
     What place is Anita facing now? 
 
e)  Complete the sentence below to describe the turn Camilla will need to make if she is facing Skull Town and then turns to face Treasure Cave.
 
Camilla will make a full turnhalf turn3-quarter turn1-quarter turn turn clockwiseanti-clockwise (select one)
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This task can be completed online or with pencil and paper.
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Position and orientation
Keywords: 
clockwise, anti-clockwise, direction, rotation, maps
Description of task: 
Students identify place names that children on a map of Pirate Island will be facing after making clockwise or anticlockwise turns.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' understanding of rotation and direction.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Geometric thinking, set 3
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
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Answers/responses: 
  Y4 (11/2001)

a) Pirate Hill
b) Palm City
c) Treasure Cave
d) Golden Port

4 correct - very difficult

2-3 correct - moderate

e) 1/4 anti-clockwise *

*also accept 3/4 clockwise

 difficult
Diagnostic and formative information: 
  Common error Likely misconception
a) Shipwreck Bay (27%) Makes 1/4 turn anti-clockwise.
b)

Cliffs of Hope (24%)
Pirate Hill (18%)

 Makes a 1/2 turn.
Makes a 3/4 turn clockwise.
c)

Shipwreck Bay (15%)
Skull Town (11%)

 Makes 1/4 turn clockwise.
Makes 1/4 turn ant-clockwise.
d) Shell Cove (14%) Makes a 1/2 turn.
e) 1/2 turn clockwise (12%).