Using grid references

Using grid references

Pencil and paperOnline interactive
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
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This task is about reading maps and grid references.

Use this map of downtown Auckland to answer the following questions.

Question 2Change answer

a)  Name a landmark that can be found at each of these grid references on the map above.
     i)   C2    
     ii)  B5   

Question 2Change answer

b)  Find both of these parks that have been circled on the map and give their grid references.
     i)       Victoria Park   
     ii)      Carlaw Park    
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with SOME auto marking).
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Position and orientation
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
maps, grid references
Description of task: 
Students use grid references to locate places on a map of Auckland and give grid references of specified places.
Curriculum Links: 
Key competencies
This resource involves communicating information and ideas using mathematics and  interpreting visual representations, both of which relate to the Key competency: Using language, symbols and text.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Geometric thinking, sets 4-5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y8 (11/1999)
a) i)
ii)		 Winter Gardens or Auckland Domain.
Downtown Airline Terminal or Queens, Princess or Hobson Wharf.		 very easy
very easy
b) i)
ii)		 A4
C3		 very easy
very easy