Geometry: Position and Direction

Understanding position and direction allows children to describe where things are and how things move. This topic builds spatial reasoning — a skill that underlies much of later geometry and real-world navigation.

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What This Topic Covers

• Year 1: Use positional language; describe direction and movement; make whole, half, quarter and three-quarter turns
• Year 2: Order and arrange objects in patterns and sequences; use vocabulary of angles; distinguish between straight-line movement and rotation; describe turns as right angles clockwise or anti-clockwise

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Year 1: Positional Language

Children learn a rich vocabulary to describe where things are:

Position Words