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Yr8 Bearings
Yr8 Bearings
Yr8 Bearings
Dr J Frost (jfrost@tiffin.kingston.sch.uk)
www.drfrostmaths.com
Q
Here some aerial pictures of various airport runways Dr Frost has
been on. Can you work out what the numbers mean?
Beijing Capital
Heathrow - London JFK – New York International Airport
Portland Rhodes
International Airport Hilo Airport - Hawaii EuroAirport – Basel- Airport -
- Oregon Mulhouse-Freiberg Greece
If we add a 0 on the end, we get the angle clockwise from North the runway faces!
Bearings
! A bearing is an angle measure clockwise from North. We use 3 digits.
Q
ship to ship. Were some
?
bearings two digits, it would be
ambiguous whether two digits
was intended or a digit was lost
in transmission.
Q
B from A ?
000
A from B ?
180
C from A ?
090
D ?
Q
D from A 225
A from D ?
045
A from E ?
135
E from A ?
315
Measuring Bearings
𝐴 𝑁
𝑁
𝐶
B from A ?
116
𝑁 A from B ?
296
𝐷
C from B ?
073
D from C ?
228
A from D ?
334
D from A ?
154
You have a map of Kingston-upon-Thames…
What does this scale mean?
Scale 1:300
It means that 1cm on the map
? in real life.
represents 300cm
Tiffin
John Lewis
1 If a map scale is 1:100 000, and two locations are 6.2 cm apart on the
map, what distance in km does this represent?
𝟔. 𝟐 × 𝟏𝟎 𝟎𝟎𝟎𝟎 = 𝟔𝟐𝟎 𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝒄𝒎
= 𝟔𝟐𝟎𝟎?𝒎 = 𝟔. 𝟐 𝒌𝒎
2 If a map scale is 1: 5000, and two locations are 3.2km apart, how far
are they away on the map in cm?
𝟑. 𝟐 𝒌𝒎 = 𝟑𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝒎 = 𝟑𝟐𝟎 𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝒄𝒎
𝟑𝟐𝟎 𝟎𝟎𝟎 ÷ 𝟓 𝟎𝟎𝟎 = ? 𝟔𝟒 𝒄𝒎
3 Bobville and Daveton are 4cm apart on a map, but 1km apart in real
life. Determine the scale of the map.
𝟒𝒄𝒎 ∶ 𝟏𝒌𝒎 = 𝟒𝒄𝒎 ∶ 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟎𝒎 = 𝟒𝒄𝒎 ∶ 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝟎𝟎𝟎𝒄𝒎
= 𝟏 ∶ 𝟐𝟓 𝟎𝟎𝟎 ?
Worksheet
Have go at the provided printouts.