Describing Movements
Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down
How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If a shape is at position (2, 3) on a grid and you tell your child to move it four squares right and two squares up, can they work out its new position without drawing it first?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
construct a grid coordinate system that uses coordinates to locate positions within a space; use coordinates and directional language to describe position and movement
locate positions in two-dimensional representations of a familiar space; move positions by following directions and pathways
recognise, compare and classify shapes, referencing the number of sides and using spatial terms such as “opposite”, “parallel”, “curved” and “straight”
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.