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Coordinates on a map
How do coordinates help you find places on a map?
Today you'll discover
- how to name a place's location
- places that share a row or a column
- how to give a route
Think firstA town map on a grid
What are the coordinates of the library?
Decide first, then press Next. Find each place, then read across before up.
A coordinate grid used as a town map with four places: the park at (2, 3), the school at (9, 3), the library at (9, 10) and the pool at (4, 12). One at a time their coordinates are written beside the grid.
See the whole ideathe big idea and the key word, in one place
The big idea
On a map grid, coordinates tell anyone exactly where each place is.
See the patternSame row, same height: the second numbers match. Same column, straight up or down: the first numbers match.
Key word
- location
- where something is; on a grid, its coordinates
Ready to use it?
- Read the coordinates of places on a map grid.
- Describe a route between two places.