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Measuring and Understanding Bearings WORKSHEET
Suitable for Grades: 7th Grade, Geometry
CCSS: HSG.CO.D.12
CCSS Description: Make formal geometric constructions with a variety of tools and methods (compass and straightedge, string, reflective devices, paper folding, dynamic geometric software, etc.). Copying a segment; copying an angle; bisecting a segment; bisecting an angle; constructing perpendicular lines, including the perpendicular bisector of a line segment; and constructing a line parallel to a given line through a point not on the line.
Measuring and Understanding Bearings WORKSHEET DESCRIPTION
This worksheet will give learners a good opportunity to grasp the concept of measuring and understanding bearings in a clockwise direction from north.
In Section A students explore key principles of bearings such as clockwise measurement from north, and three-digit notation through a series of always, sometimes, or never true statements and reading bearings from a diagram.
Section B focuses on practical measurement skills, presenting diagrams where learners can measure bearings using protractors. This section includes straightforward angles that can be measured with standard equipment, along with exercises requiring students to find both forward and reverse bearings between pairs of points.
Finally, the worksheet includes problem-solving exercises where students are given one bearing and must calculate the corresponding reverse bearing. These problems reinforce the conceptual understanding that bearings form supplementary relationships when measured in opposite directions between the same two points.
In Section A students explore key principles of bearings such as clockwise measurement from north, and three-digit notation through a series of always, sometimes, or never true statements and reading bearings from a diagram.
Section B focuses on practical measurement skills, presenting diagrams where learners can measure bearings using protractors. This section includes straightforward angles that can be measured with standard equipment, along with exercises requiring students to find both forward and reverse bearings between pairs of points.
Finally, the worksheet includes problem-solving exercises where students are given one bearing and must calculate the corresponding reverse bearing. These problems reinforce the conceptual understanding that bearings form supplementary relationships when measured in opposite directions between the same two points.
