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Naming a direction
Between north and east: which way, exactly?
Today you'll discover
- why 'north-east-ish' is not an answer
- how to say a slanted direction with one angle
- what the brackets and the degrees mean
Think firstAn arrow points somewhere between north and east
The arrow leans from north toward east. How do you say its direction exactly?
Decide first, then press Next. Watch which axis the angle is drawn from.
A compass rose, north up, beside a hundred-kilometre arrow tilted from north toward east. After a prediction, a small arc is drawn from the north axis to the arrow and marked thirty degrees; then the direction is written beside it as a bearing in brackets. The last step asks for the bearing of the hiker's resultant, fifty-six degrees from north toward east.
See the whole ideathe big idea and the key word, in one place
The big idea
A bearing: face an axis, then turn. [N30°E].
For example[W] is due west. [N45°W] is north-west, halfway between. [S20°E] is nearly south, leaning a little toward east. Each one is an axis and a turn.
Key word
- bearing
- a direction written as an axis to face and an angle to turn toward a second axis, such as [N30°E]
About this modelArrows are drawn to the scale in the corner; a bearing turns from north (or east).
Arrows are drawn to the scale in the corner; a bearing turns from north (or east).
Ready to use it?
- Write the bearing of a described direction, and read a bearing back into an axis and a turn.