Six Places to Visit
Problem
Well, we're going to look at visiting places.
Here's the road map:
There are six places to visit:
1. Relations who live in the tall house;
2. Friends who live in the house with trees;
3. The wide school building;
4. The blue church;
5. The health centre with blue roof and pink walls;
6. The little pink shop which is leaning over.
You live in the yellow house at the bottom of the map.
Starting at your house, try to describe the journey to each of the six places.
You'll need to describe the bends in the road [how much they turn] and which way to turn at junctions.
Having done that what about trying this next one too:
We have the same places to visit, but they are in different places now.
Getting Started
At a junction, imagine turning the direction you want to go. What part of a full turn would this be? How many degrees would it be?
You could draw out the map on the ground outside (ask someone to help you) and walk along the route.
Student Solutions
Thank you to children from Knaphill School who sent lots of solutions to this problem. Kevin described very carefully how to get to each of the places:
To the school:
At the first junction, turn clockwise $90^\circ$ go forward past the tall house.
When you see a turn, turn it by $45^\circ$ anti-clockwise.
Go forward until you see a little pink shop that's leaning over, there, you will find the next junction, turn $45^\circ$ anti-clockwise then go forward. You will see a blue church.
Go straight past it then there will be a third junction, turn clockwise $90^\circ$.
Go forward till you see the fourth junction! At this junction, you turn clockwise and $90^\circ$.
Go forward and soon you will see a white house with trees around it, ignore it.
Carry on going forward until you see a turn, turn it by turning it clockwise $45^\circ$.
Start going forward again, there will be another $45^\circ$ turn clockwise soon after, then you will come to the school.
To the red house:
Go forward until you see a turn, turn it by turning $90^\circ$ anti-clockwise.
Go forward and you're there!
To the tall house:
Go forward until you see the first junction, turn $90^\circ$ clockwise go forward and then you'll be there. Easy-Peasy.
To the pink shop that's leaning over:
Go forward until you see the first junction, turn $90^\circ$ clockwise
Go forward again, past the tall house.
Then you'll see the second junction, turn $45^\circ$ anti-clockwise and go forward. That's where the pink shop that's leaning over is.
To the blue church:
Go forward until you see the first junction, turn $90^\circ$ clockwise
Go forward again, past the tall house.
You will see a $45^\circ$turn, turn anti-clockwise.
Go forward again, then comes the 2nd junction, turn $45^\circ$ anti-clockwise, go forward and soon comes the blue church.
To the house with trees:
Go forward till you get to the first junction, turn clockwise by $90^\circ$
Go forward past the tall house, then the $45^\circ$ turn anti-clockwise
Go forward till the second junction, turn $90^\circ$ clockwise
Then you will come to a $45^\circ$ turn anti-clockwise, past the school
Then you'll come to another $45^\circ$ anti-clockwise turn
After that, go forward till another $45^\circ$ anti-clockwise turn!
Go forward another little bit then you'll be at the house with trees!
Jack from Eastwood Primary School described visiting all the places in one journey. This is what he wrote:
Well done, Jack, that's a very efficient way of visiting each place in turn.
Thank you to everyone else who sent us their detailed description. Unfortunately there isn't space to publish them all!