Back to Functional Skills Maths Entry Level 3 Home

Functional Skills: Movement and Direction

Entry Level 3City & GuildsEdexcelNCFEOpen Awards

Functional Skills: Movement and Direction Revision

Movement and Direction

In this section, we’ll look at movement and direction, as well as compass navigation.

Entry Level 3EdexcelCity & GuildsNCFEOpen Awards

Describing Rotational Movement

We have two opposite directions, clockwise and anticlockwise. We might also describe them as right and left, if the context is clearly referring to a rotational situation.

We also need to specify the size of movement. We’ll do this by comparing the size of a turn to the full turn of a clock i.e. 360°.

A half turn is 180° and a quarter turn is 90°.

Entry Level 3EdexcelCity & GuildsNCFEOpen Awards

Follow Our Socials

Social BG
Facebook

Follow our Facebook for community support

Social BG

Follow our Instagram & TikTok for revision help

Our Facebook page can put you in touch with other students of your course for revision and community support. Alternatively, you can find us on Instagram or TikTok where we're always sharing revision tips for all our courses.

Follow our socials for revision tips and community support

  • facebook
  • instagram
  • tiktok

Four-Point and Eight-Point Compasses

The four directions on a four-point compass are North, East, South and West.

We have an easy mnemonic to remember them, too. Going from North and heading clockwise, we have:

Never Eat Shredded Wheat

For an eight-point compass, we have our standard four directions, and four intermediate directions.

So, from North, East, South and West, we have the directions in between:

North-East, South-East, South-West and North-West.

Entry Level 3EdexcelCity & GuildsNCFEOpen Awards
Entry Level 3EdexcelCity & GuildsNCFEOpen Awards

Example 1: Describing Rotational Movement

A shower is set to the medium setting. What movement should be applied to turn the shower off?

[1 mark]

 

This requires a half turn, in either direction.

Entry Level 3EdexcelCity & GuildsNCFEOpen Awards

Example 2: Four-Point and Eight-Point Compasses

The image below shows the direction of wind in Manchester.

What direction is this?

[1 mark]

 

The wind is moving in a northeasterly direction.

Entry Level 3EdexcelCity & GuildsNCFEOpen Awards

Functional Skills: Movement and Direction Example Questions

The off setting is a quarter turn clockwise from 220.

Since the off setting is not accessible this way, we must conclude that the off setting is three quarter turns anticlockwise from 220.

a) For Sheffield to York, the routes are:

Sheffield (N) to Leeds, Leeds (NE) to York

OR

Sheffield (NE) to Hull, Hull (NW) to York

 

b) For Hull to Leeds, the routes are:

Hull (NW) to York, York (SW) to Leeds

OR

Hull (SW) to Sheffield, Sheffield (N) to Leeds

 

c) For Bradford to Sheffield, the route is:

Bradford (E) to Leeds, Leeds (S) to Sheffield

(We could alternatively head East to Leeds and go clockwise around all remaining cities until Sheffield, but this is a little unnecessary.)

The full turn from 92\text{ Hz} to 108\text{ Hz} is an increase of 16\text{ Hz}.

A turn from 97.4\text{ Hz} to 101.4\text{ Hz} is an increase 4\text{ Hz}.

Then this change is \dfrac{4}{16} of a turn, or \dfrac{1}{4} of a turn. The movement is a quarter turn clockwise.

Functional Skills: Movement and Direction Worksheet and Example Questions

Site Logo

Movement and Direction EL3

Entry Level 3NewOfficial PFS