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Here are some specific activities, investigations or visual aids we have picked out. Click anywhere in the grey area to access the resource. The options may go beyong the scope of this level of the Functional Skills requirements.

• Navigation NEWS Each visitor to this page has a unique maze constructed for them to find their way through answering questions about bearings along the way.
• Plane Bearings A visual aid designed to help pupils estimate three figure bearings.
• Bearings Video Find out about bearings and practise estimating, measuring and calculating them.
• Bearings Practise your ability to interpret and use three-figure bearings with this self-marking exercise.

Here are some exam-style questions on this statement:

• "On Transum Island a coastguard station marked A is on a bearing of 305° from a small lighthouse marked B." ... more
• "The diagram show the locations of three orienteering checkpoints. What is the three-figure bearing of A from B?" ... more
• "The diagram shows the positions of three towns, Aberville (A), Buchus (B) and Clipton(C)." ... more
• "A fishing boat is somewhere along the line from A to C." ... more

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Click on a topic below for suggested lesson Starters, resources and activities from Transum.

• Bearings A bearing is a description of a direction. It is the number of degrees measured in a clockwise direction from north as seen from above. Convention, probably born out of the need to be quite clear when saying a bearing over a crackly aircraft radio or storm at sea, three figures are given for each bearing. So 90 degrees would be expressed as 090 degrees. The four main directions are known as the cardinal points. These are north (360°), east (090°), south (180°) and west (270°). The directions in between those are known as the half cardinal points and can be expressed as north-east (045°), south-east (135°), south-west (225°) and north west (315°). The study of bearings in Mathematics provides a practical, real-life application of angles and geometry. It can provide a need for numerical calculations, scale drawing and estimation.