What you need to know
Check yourself against these “I can” statements.
- I can measure and draw bearings
- I can make and use scale drawings
- 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 scheme of work, following Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Mathematics, Higher tier (1MA1). Open this topic in Mr Wells Maths to see it alongside the rest of the course.