🧭 Primary Maths & Science Games · Grades 3–5 · Directions and grid positions
Grid Map Game: Directions, Coordinate Pairs and Routes
The classic slips are swapping column and row in a pair and describing a direction the wrong way round. North is up and east is right; stand at the reference place, then look at the other one, and write the column before the row.
- Free, no sign-up
- Ad-free play area
- Tablet friendly
- Parent mode
- A4 worksheet
- 5 levels
How to play
- In Explore, tap an arrow to walk one square or drag the child to any square. The panel shows the pair and the direction and distance of every place.
- Pick a place and press Go to watch the walk east–west first, then north–south. Pause, resume or go back home.
- Levels: directions, reading pairs, plotting a flag, following a route with the arrows, and moves and steps.
Curriculum unit
Primary maths, grades 3–5: the eight compass directions and simple route maps, and describing positions with (column, row) pairs (PEP textbook, grade 3 volume 2 unit 1 and grade 5 volume 1 unit 2).
For parents and teachers
Mistakes are grouped as reversed directions, unfamiliar diagonal directions, swapped pairs, miscounted squares, swapped route legs, changing the wrong number in a move, and mixing up east–west and north–south. Worksheet questions give the pairs so no map is needed.