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    North-up coordinate map from zero to four: school at 1,1; library at 3,1; museum at 1,3; park at 3,3. One interval is 100 metres.
    Single choice

    Which place is at (1,3)?

    On a 0–4 grid, move three right and one up: (3,1).

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    🔎 Worked example

    Read across, then up. Routes in this exercise follow grid lines; the points mark places, not grid squares.

    On this fictional local map, eastings increase right and northings increase up. Read across, then up. School (1,1), library (3,1), park (3,3), museum (1,3). One grid interval represents 100 metres. These are simple coordinate points for learning the across-then-up convention, not a full national six-figure map reference. Model school to library: two intervals east = 200 metres.

    ✏️ Practice

  • 1.
    Write the coordinates of the school and the park.
  • 2.
    Find the library → park distance along grid lines.
  • 3.
    Compare school → library → park with school → museum → park.
  • 4.
    Add a café at (4,2). Give two grid-line routes from school to café.
  • 5.
    Explain why the scale counts spaces between lines rather than the lines themselves.

    • 💭 Your answer

    Single choice

    Library to park is two intervals. How far is that?

    ✅ Quick check

    Single choice

    What is wrong with reading (3,1) as one across, three up?

    🔑 Answers

    🔑 Practice answers

  • 1.
    School (1,1), park (3,3).
  • 2.
    Two intervals north = 200 metres.
  • 3.
    Each is four intervals, or 400 metres. One goes east then north; the other north then east.
  • 4.
    East three then north one; or north one then east three. Both total 400 metres.
  • 5.
    Moving from 1 to 3 crosses two intervals, although you see the lines labeled 1, 2, and 3.

    • 💡 Hint and challenge

    💡 Hint: Colour the horizontal and vertical axes differently and trace each coordinate move.

    ⭐ Challenge: Add a café at (4,2); describe two grid-line routes from the school and compare distances.

    🔎 Challenge answer

    Both shortest grid-line routes to (4,2) have three eastward and one northward interval: 400 metres. A route with a backtrack can be longer.

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