Geometry (position & direction): Platypus Patrol

3 - Further Challenges

Inspired by Nature Worksheet

Click to download. Best opened in Microsoft Word on all devices.

Further Challenges

  • Compare your route to a classmate’s. Who had the shortest route? How do you know?
  • The Coordinate Challenge is a fabulous geometry-based activity on the Nrich website that will require you to work systematically to identify the locations of capital letters on a grid by reading coordinates.

Related Clip

The secret underground life of a duck-billed platypus.

Credit: BBC One – The Life of Mammals