Position, direction, and movement
Your child can describe turns using right angles. They know a quarter turn is a right angle, and can turn clockwise or the other way.
In curriculum terms
Use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction, and movement, including straight lines and distinguishing rotation as a turn in terms of right angles (quarter, half, three-quarter turns, clockwise and anti-clockwise)
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Can your child follow directions like "turn clockwise a quarter turn" or "move three squares to the right" on a grid or in a simple navigation game?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
identify, describe and demonstrate quarter, half, three-quarter and full measures of turn in everyday situations
identify angles as measures of turn and compare angles with right angles in everyday situations
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.