What you need to know
Check yourself against these “I can” statements.
- I can measure and draw bearings
- I can solve bearings problems using angle facts
Practise this topic
4 resourcesBearings
Scale drawings (answers within 2° and 5%), back bearings and angles from parallel north lines, right-angled trigonometry, the sine and cosine rules, then harder problems mixing them. A diagram with every question. Five levels…
⬢ BlockbustersBearings Blockbusters
Blockbusters with the questions from the Bearings worksheet: choose its levels for the ordinary hexagons and for the harder ★ ones. Show the answer and the worked solution, or play against the computer with multiple choice.
🕹️ Topic gameBearings Golf
Eighteen holes of mini golf where every shot’s direction is a bearing: type three figures, watch the golfer turn clockwise from north, then stop the swinging power bar. No protractor, so students estimate: compass points first…
🔤 Fill the GapsFill the Gaps: Maths Vocabulary
A sentence explaining one of the unit’s key words, with gaps. Pick the right word for each gap from the words scattered round it: the right ones and plenty of wrong ones. A deck for every unit.
These are the pages for Bearings and scale drawings in the GCSE + AQA Further Maths scheme of work, following Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Higher (1MA1), plus AQA Level 2 Further Mathematics (8365). Open this topic in Mr Wells Maths to see it alongside the rest of the course.