GEOMETRY • COMPASS DIRECTIONS 255Get your bearings
Now it’s your turn to navigate
your way around the Android
Islands. Can you write
directions for these journeys?The lighthouse keeper wants
an ice cream. Can you give
directions to steer his boat to the
ice cream cart?Can you direct the motor boat
to the puffins on Puffin Island?If the yacht sailed a course
of 1W, 2N, 2W, 1S, 1W, where
would it reach?If the canoeist paddled 3E, 6S,
where would he end up?TRY IT OUTUsing a compass
to navigate
Let’s practise using
compass bearings by
navigating our way
round this map of the
Android Islands in
Cyberland.The canoeist can
reach the cave by
following this course:
2E, 2S, 1W.One way for the
yacht to get to the
harbour would be to
sail 6N, 3W, 1N, 1W.The motor boat
could get to the cafe
via this course: three
squares north, then four
squares east. We write
this as 3N, 4E.A B C D E F G H11109 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Answers on page 320N
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